aspergers & computers (was: Re: [thechat] Whisky Question)
Erika Meyer
emeyer at lclark.edu
Fri Dec 21 11:48:08 CST 2001
Andrew writes:
>>>Perhaps I suffer more from this than I thought:
>>>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html
*erika blathers incessantly in response*
Andrew retorts:
>I don't think I was being quite as serious as all that -- more
>observing how sometimes when something apparently off-the-wall hits
>a subject I really want to know how it relates.
duh!
as if that should stop me from going off on a tangent.
Must be my ADD. (No I'm not quite joking, I keep meaning to get
myself tested... but then I forget all about it...)
>The article, I thought, was well balanced and I found especially
>interesting the relationship drawn between many generations of
>professors and academics with today's growing communities of
>out-and-out geeks.
very nice, yes. so what if you're an academic AND a geek?
Erika
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