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   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "David Cheatham"  wrote in message   
   news:xn0grbsor2snmeg004@news.windstream.net...   
   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
      
   For me it tends to work best when I compose a response as best I can and   
   then leave it sit as a draft for a period of time.  There is something about   
   returning to it later that makes it easier to see if it needs fixing.   
      
   > 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.)   
      
   The aspect I am thinking of, which might or might not be directly connected   
   to the autism-spectrum disorders, is a tendency to make overly-literal   
   interpretations of things that don't lend themselves to it.  Whatever the   
   underlying cause, it manifests itself as overly-rigid interpretations.   
   That's what appeared to me to be taking place in Friday's discussion.   
      
   > 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   
      
   An apt observation; in fact, they both occupy a similar space on the   
   Anxiety-spectrum disorders, and may in fact overlap.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Agreed.  And the compulsions one is aware of and cannot stop are even more   
   painful.   
      
   On a side note, the Family Guy tribute to "Return of the Jedi" has an OCD   
   gag in it.  The recent "Empire parody" DVD showed them working it out at a   
   table read.  I actually think the gag works well in context.   
      
   And thus we come full circle back to Space Opera again.   
      
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