[Air-L] do we all have asperger's?

[Alexis Turner]

Here are the criterion for diagnosing Asperger's:
http://web.syr.edu/~rjkopp/data/as_diag_list.html

Based on the abbreviated exchange below, it would seem she was going strictly 
with choice B* - "Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviour, 
interests, and activities."  Given the current reality of specialization in work 
environments, this seems a rather useless criterion taken by itself and without 
support of the other diagnostic features.  We wouldn't accuse her of being 
autistic merely because she is a psychiatrist and...pyschiatrizes...all day, 
would we?

(Please note that, further down the page, Szatmari does not even include this 
factor as a diagnostic criterion at all.)

That is not to say I haven't met people that could meet several of these 
criteria, in several different fields, but I would hope she made this judgement 
on other factors, as well?
-Alexis

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Barry Wellman wrote:

::Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:09:47 -0500
::From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
::Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
::To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
::Subject: [Air-L] do we all have asperger's?
::
::I am not making this up:
::
::"A day after the Hans Reiser murder trial drifted into the netherworld,
::the murder case against the Linux programmer careened Thursday into the
::world of psychiatry.
::
::Defense witness and psychiatrist Beverly Parr, on the stand for the second
::day, testified that those who use a computer regularly "possibly" might
::have Asperger's syndrome. Those diagnosed with this disorder have impaired
::social skills.
::
::"His activities were restricted to the computer more than I would expect,"
::testified Parr, a family friend of the Reisers.
::
::"What you're saying, you found his work on the computer matched one of the
::diagnostic features of Asperger's?" prosecutor Paul Hora asked on cross
::examination.
::
::"Possibly."
::
::There's more to the story at the website:
::
::Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/hans_reiser_trial/index.html#top
::22Feb08
::
:: Barry Wellman
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