who's playing this game?
jrd:
Heh. Of course Asperger's and other forms of autism are nonsense "disorders": I certainly have no problems with it. I just don't want to socialize with people, and if they force me to, I hate it. Perfectly normal.
But since people love labelling others, why not let them?
Funnily enough if you look into where Asperger's is really common, you end up in Sillicon Valley, universities, etc.. My guess is that they just needed a name to describe why geeks (ie people with more intelligence than common sense) are non-social!
DuckSpeak:
Geeks know too much for their own good.
In Soviet Russia, knowledge masters geeks!
I used to be good at science but I've given up all hope in it excepts for physics. All that puny activities of molecules and such bores me. I can't judge Biology because I never took it as a course, but I am definitly the Art/Literature type, who just loves to make up phrases like "The epitomal, archetypal perfection of quintessential _______ness." ;)
witch:
I read a study about silicon valley & autism recently. Apparently rates of autism and aspergers are very high in the valley. It is supposed that geeks are actually breeding 'cos they're meeting each other at work in their programming cubicles. ;)
My degree is in computing and I work teaching computing. I relate better to animals & my computer than people. My partner is a technician, we can spend the whole evening in front of our machines, hardly speaking. It's great. :)
Ardin Topani:
I'm an artsy type--I've got a design degree, but I can balance my checkbook, for what it's worth. I never did well in school with math/science subjects, but I think it's because I find things easier to understand when given a real-life context rather than a "Learn this cause it's in the lesson plan" explanation. The last time I remember enjoying science class was 3rd grade when our teacher did experiments all the time to explain things. I was lost in math once I got to Algebra 2. I never saw the point in doing math when you didn't know one of the numbers you needed to use. For example, 2 + a = b. Well, duh, it you add 2 to another number it will yield yet another number. Did we need to write out the obvious? I suppose I found that "higher" maths were just a waste of time so I stopped paying attention.
Personally, I think that the reason people play this game has less to do with interests and more to do with personality. I think everyone who plays this game is a control freak. Just like me.
J. M. Pescado:
Untrue. According to Inge, control freaks represent a niche market, and this is why Macrotastics and the military-level control it provides will never be popular. But I think that Inge is just a round mound of gray fatness.
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