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Subject: Off Topic -- Asberger's (was: hetero men: teaching your woman lojban
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From: Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote:

> (It's obvious to me that Lojban is a male kind of thing, and the
> mode of discourse on the list is even more a male kind of thing.
> I don't mean macho stuff; I mean acute asbergerism.)



What an amusing notion of a disorder:

Asberger's Syndrome A kind of "partial" autsim where a person of adequate
intelligence (as measured by a psychological test) has difficulties in
appreciating others' points of view.
(http://www.dyslexia.gb.com/Information/dictionary.htm)

They used to call it "opinionated", now they're prescribing pills.




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