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Posted: 2005-08-02 05:29pm
by Dakarne
Okay... I applaud your attempt to return to Star Wars, but keep it on Autistic Spectrum disorders

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:29pm
by Duckie
Come to think of it, I have an IQ somewhere between tested maximums and minimums of 154 [<-- Probably a bit lucky score] and 138, so at worst you've got two points on me. Assuming I don't have Aspergers*, that magical intelligence increase doesn't seem that large. Not that IQ is a particularly good measure of intelligence or common sense in the first place, as I prove inadvertantly every day.

And that should be the last mention of IQ, because an intellectual dick-measuring competition is not really useful. Forgive the horrible pun, but it's not the size of the IQ, it's how you use it.

*I fit the symptoms, but I also fit the symptoms of many diseases I most assuredly don't have. Such as mild Agoraphobia.

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:30pm
by Tiger Ace
genkkov wrote:hehe, sorry about that, haven't read the novel. Just something I was left wondering about as I was leaving the movie, everyone was so suprised when two babies popped out.
If we wanted to get this thread to a topic that was somewhat star wars, how exactly is Bacta supposed to work. I've looked up a few things, but none of it really seems to make a great deal of sense to me. Has there been a thread on this?
Bacta if I recall correctly, helps tissue regenerate.

Dark, still hasn't answered my point, yes, there ARE people who are sucessful with asperger's, but what percentage actully suceed in living a normal life with this handicap?

Its very fine to show that a mental disability can be overcome, so can ADHD, it dosn't mean it should be taken as something to be proud on.

Work on NOT carrying around like a war badge.

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:41pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Dakarne wrote:
Good, you provided one example, relevent how to the vast mass of people with Asperger's Syndrome who are NOT world famous?
Do you need to be world famous to be successful?
*snip list*
Appeal to authority, moron.

Besides, can you 100% confirm that everyone on that list has/had AS?

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:41pm
by Dakarne
Dark, still hasn't answered my point, yes, there ARE people who are sucessful with asperger's, but what percentage actully suceed in living a normal life with this handicap?
I'm not sure... I doubt the ones who aren't successful flaunt it on the Internet.
Its very fine to show that a mental disability can be overcome, so can ADHD, it dosn't mean it should be taken as something to be proud on.
There's the word Disability again

Anxiety isn't a DISability

It's a Difficulty.

there's a Massive difference.

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:43pm
by Tiger Ace
You can dress it up in words, same thing, it affects how you communicate and think, sometimes in a negative way.

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:43pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Dakarne wrote:
Its very fine to show that a mental disability can be overcome, so can ADHD, it dosn't mean it should be taken as something to be proud on.
There's the word Disability again

Anxiety isn't a DISability

It's a Difficulty.

there's a Massive difference.
Sugar-coating semantics, plus just making up shit.

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:45pm
by Dakarne
You can dress it up in words, same thing, it affects how you communicate and think, sometimes in a negative way.
I can communicate fine... I can think fine...
Besides, can you 100% confirm that everyone on that list has/had AS?
They were diagnosed by Specialists and they all showed clear signs of Having Asperger's... the only ones who were ever under debate were Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:47pm
by Tiger Ace
See? You think, Now I can tell you even online, through a text medium, when compared to other 'nerds', your typing is weird, kinda disconnected. Its still readable but it shows.

And again, you have yet to show its an advantage, if its not an advantage, stop touting it.

Posted: 2005-08-02 05:49pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Dakarne wrote:
Besides, can you 100% confirm that everyone on that list has/had AS?
They were diagnosed by Specialists and they all showed clear signs of Having Asperger's... the only ones who were ever under debate were Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
That's not proof. I checked over on the Wiki, and there are several where the possibility is iffy.

Not that it matters, since it's just a damn appeal to authority...

Posted: 2005-08-02 06:58pm
by Dakarne
I'm not going to sit here and be insulted for something I couldn't help and just happen to be comfortable with.

I'm gone from debating this, if you can't accept that I'm different and want to stay that way...





PISS OFF!!!

Posted: 2005-08-02 10:43pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Dakarne wrote:I'm not going to sit here and be insulted for something I couldn't help and just happen to be comfortable with.
What, being a dipshit? :roll:

Posted: 2005-08-02 11:09pm
by Sharpshooter
"How mature, an insult..."

Posted: 2005-08-03 05:01am
by Dakarne
What, being a dipshit?
Who's the Dipshit, me or someone who'd make it out that Asperger's Syndrome is a threat to those around me.

Posted: 2005-08-03 05:27am
by Tiger Ace
Or the one who strawmans enemy positions and nitpicks everything to hell? :roll:

Posted: 2005-08-03 05:31am
by Dakarne
Or the one who strawmans enemy positions and nitpicks everything to hell?
I don't take being called a threat to those around me lightly...

And I didn't "Nitpick Everything to Hell"... I corrected several severe mistakes, like his percieved Nature of Asperger's Syndrome.

Posted: 2005-08-03 05:43am
by Tiger Ace
Or your semetics bullshit between disability, disorder, difficulty, neural,mental. It dosn't matter if the affect is the same.

Posted: 2005-08-03 05:48am
by Dakarne
Or your semetics bullshit between disability, disorder, difficulty, neural,mental. It dosn't matter if the affect is the same
He obviously didn't get what it meant. Did he?

And of course, he didn't get the Effects right either.

Posted: 2005-08-03 05:53am
by Tiger Ace
Dakarne wrote:
Its very fine to show that a mental disability can be overcome, so can ADHD, it dosn't mean it should be taken as something to be proud on.
There's the word Disability again

Anxiety isn't a DISability

It's a Difficulty.

there's a Massive difference.
Heres a very fine example of your semetics whoring. Kindly cease and desist and get on with your points. And please, next time open only one thread if you intend to derail it into Asperger's.

Posted: 2005-08-03 06:10am
by Dakarne
Heres a very fine example of your semetics whoring. Kindly cease and desist and get on with your points. And please, next time open only one thread if you intend to derail it into Asperger's.
Actually, this thread was meant for Star Wars Cultural Aspects when it came to dealing with Asperger's

Posted: 2005-08-03 06:27am
by Tiger Ace
Which, within 3 lines of your OP, you completly hijacked. So take a flying leap from the nearest sky scraper.

Posted: 2005-08-03 06:29am
by Dakarne
Which, within 3 lines of your OP, you completly hijacked. So take a flying leap from the nearest sky scraper.
Can we move on to more important things, like debunking Rabid Trekkies.

Posted: 2005-08-03 06:47am
by Tiger Ace
Which this thread is not about.

Chest bragging is generally frowned upon, check out Trek Destroyers early posts for such examples.

Posted: 2005-08-03 06:47am
by Sir Sirius
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Dakarne wrote:
Good, you provided one example, relevent how to the vast mass of people with Asperger's Syndrome who are NOT world famous?
Do you need to be world famous to be successful?
*snip list*
Appeal to authority, moron.
No he did not commit an appeal to authority in that post. I do not quite understand what he hopes to achieve by listing world famous successful people who supposedly had Asperger's, but an appeal to authority it was not.

However the more interesting, not to mention disturbing, question is why did he place Theodore Kaczynski - better know as the Unabomber - in his list of successful people with Asberger's? Ok, Kaczynski does have a Ph.D. in mathematics, but that is not what he is known for.

Posted: 2005-08-03 06:56am
by Dakarne
However the more interesting, not to mention disturbing, question is why did he place Theodore Kaczynski - better know as the Unabomber - in his list of successful people with Asberger's? Ok, Kaczynski does have a Ph.D. in mathematics, but that is not what he is known for.
Steven Speilberg isn't known for that either, and he's got Asperger's

It's not Asberger's is AsPerger's by the way... just to let you know.