From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Sep 07 13:38:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 7 Sep 2001 20:38:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 57126 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2001 20:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Sep 2001 20:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Sep 2001 20:36:33 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14885; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B992F7C.4020004@reutershealth.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:35:08 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Invent Yourself Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Off Topic -- Asberger's (was: hetero men: teaching your woman lojban References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan 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." -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel