Diogenes here is looking for an expert who knows what they're talking about.
I'm diagnosed with mild high-performance Aspergers as a side dish to a huge IQ (I may have reinforced the top 163 bar when the Tavistock Clinic picked me up during the extension of IQ testing to kids in the 1960s, which meant I couldn't test - but I'm a bit off that now). My question has been, "What does that mean?", which has gone unanswered.
The history I've found is all about difference. From Asperger, concerned with eliminating those who wouldn't make good obedient stormtroopers, to Dabrowsky, whose "over-excitability" failed to note the comparative, to Attwood, whose "we don't know anything about high-performance, so let's dispense with that, they're all Autistic" is moving on to "Why recognise Aspie as a distinct syndrome?" I'm left in the ridiculous situation of being classified as intellectually-challenged despite having reinforced the top bar to intellect and having a decent share of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to my name (I actually made the join between East and West Europe). Which only tells me one thing: if I'm intellectually challenged, what does that say about the fellows doing the diagnosis?
You'll notice I'm new here, so could someone please put me on the path of rectitude, because right now, I'm of the opinion that if they're not asking, we should be telling them. It's like being an expert in aviation without ever having flown. Or my old man, at the head of automotive research, yet not owning a car!
I'm diagnosed with mild high-performance Aspergers as a side dish to a huge IQ (I may have reinforced the top 163 bar when the Tavistock Clinic picked me up during the extension of IQ testing to kids in the 1960s, which meant I couldn't test - but I'm a bit off that now). My question has been, "What does that mean?", which has gone unanswered.
The history I've found is all about difference. From Asperger, concerned with eliminating those who wouldn't make good obedient stormtroopers, to Dabrowsky, whose "over-excitability" failed to note the comparative, to Attwood, whose "we don't know anything about high-performance, so let's dispense with that, they're all Autistic" is moving on to "Why recognise Aspie as a distinct syndrome?" I'm left in the ridiculous situation of being classified as intellectually-challenged despite having reinforced the top bar to intellect and having a decent share of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to my name (I actually made the join between East and West Europe). Which only tells me one thing: if I'm intellectually challenged, what does that say about the fellows doing the diagnosis?
You'll notice I'm new here, so could someone please put me on the path of rectitude, because right now, I'm of the opinion that if they're not asking, we should be telling them. It's like being an expert in aviation without ever having flown. Or my old man, at the head of automotive research, yet not owning a car!