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   From: david@creeknet.com   
      
   catpandaddy wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "OM"  wrote in message   
   > news:oem5p55kag5qa4dhqnvcs5sno6gnedtefg@4ax.com...   
   > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:22:27 -0600, "catpandaddy"    
   > > wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > I'm thinking it could be Asperger syndrome or something   
   > >   
   > > ...You know, these days Asperger's is the new ADD. Every retarded   
   > > action is attributed to it, even though Asperger's doesn't even   
   > > begin to describe what's behind RT's inability to grasp the concept   
   > > in question here.   
   >   
   > Actually the posting behaviors of those with ADD doesn't resemble the   
   > way he posts at all, they are at somewhat opposite ends of things.   
      
   The posting behavior of people with ADD, and I say this as someone with   
   ADD, tend to be somewhat rambling mixed with strange off-topic points.   
      
   I know I'm often in the middle of a post when another entirely   
   different aspect occurs to me. I'm working hard to try to actually   
   start a new post instead of going off topic for a page.   
      
   Likewise, ADD might result in people dropping out of conversations for   
   days and then popping back in, but that's pretty common Usenet behavior   
   anyway, so, eh.   
      
      
   As from what I understand of Aspergers, almost *none* of it should even   
   vaguely affect online communcations. People with Aspergers have   
   problems figuring out verbal clues, and facial expressions, and stuff   
   like that, and have to make a bunch of rules to do it manually. (And   
   don't really realize everyone else has it as an inate ability.)   
      
   That really doesn't have anything to do with online communication,   
   where we're *all* using rules to figure out what people are actually   
   saying, and if they're bored or not. People with Aspergers have   
   problems figuring out stuff that *already* isn't in online   
   communications.   
      
   In fact, logically, they should be *better* at it, having to do it in   
   real life.   
      
   But even if that communicated to online, that just means they keep   
   conversations going long after everyone's got tired of them, or bring   
   up sore points after people carefully stop talking about them, but   
   that's still no reason to act like an asshole.   
      
      
   Now, I have seen some people with Aspergers who did appear to have some   
   issues online, but in almost all cases it appeared as slight OCD to me,   
   like doing idiotic countdowns and stuff like that. That's not   
   Aspergers, that's OCD.   
      
   People with OCD should be cut some slack if they don't seem to want to   
   stop posts that annoy other people. It can be a 'compulsion' that they   
   really can't do anything about, and have trouble recognizing they're   
   doing it.   
      
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