Subject: Re: [lojban] Off Topic -- Asberger's (was: hetero men: teaching your woman lojban

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:35:08 -0400

Invent Yourself wrote:

> 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.

Well, I would tend to distrust a dictionary that misspells the
keyword: it's "Asperger's syndrome". And I would correct the
tail to say "appreciating that other people *have* a point of view."

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