Autistic boy ,12 , with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity

See, vaccines do have a positive side

My thoughts are along those lines too...

Im sure if Einstein was born 16 years ago he would be dubbed autistic, adhd etc etc.

The article said this boys case isnt bad.

I've seen vaccine inflicted autism and the victims of that suffer greatly.

No such thing as a good batch. ;-) I posted that light heartedly.

Yes, my sister's son has the debilitating form of autism. He walks in circles and patterns and screams when certain colors are in front of him. Even as a toddler I can tell that it is an unpleasant condition to have.

I measure high on the Asperger traits list, but I do not share any of the debilitating OCD kinds of traits. I think they are two entirely separate things.

I'm developing a business to help therapists interact with their autistic clients in a way that will be more natural for both. The autistics/Aspergers I know are all very bright, just different. I mentioned to one that it was like he was running on a different operating system - an analogy he immediately appreciated because he's into computers. And it is absolutely true. I helped him figure out how to write "adaptive subroutines" to cope with neurotypical behaviors and rules that don't make sense, and he blossomed. And he's sharing the concept with his friends.

I agree with one poster here who said that there is more than one form of autism. I'll go a step farther and say that it can be grouped into a minimum of three general categories - damage, evolution, and damage and evolution. The smart ones, regardless of whether their bodies are damaged as well, are all very, very smart, and are capable of feats of memory, ability with mathematics, physics, computers, and music that are very rare in "normal" people (at what point does eccentricity in a genius constitute autism?). And left to manage themselves, they are the nicest people - they have great difficulty understanding motivations that are less than high-minded - it is so far beneath them it would be like asking a modern human to revert to behaving like a caveman. It seems that what gets diagnosed as autistic often could be labeled "evil deficit" just as accurately since those are the behaviors they have to develop adaptive programming to process. These not a step up in evolution, they're a leap.

Aren't autistic people supposed to be drooling vegetables?
The little piss ant doesn't seem too off socially. That is not bloody fair. A bloody genius and more or less socially adequate. Here's hoping for something horrible to happen to him.

Ooops! forgot to log in :)

Nice to see some good news, over in the Netherlands almost the only way for autistic people to reach the news is a killing spree, or killers that just called autistic for their actions, hell, we even have politicians that use it as an insult.

I am autistic myself, not the most fun thing, but it has it's uses, like when a blind persons learns to hear better. :-)

How long have you known that you have AS?

Did you get a Dx when you were young or recently?

So what? I have a higher IQ than Einstein as well and instead of using it to figure stupid shit out I'm using it to trick bitches into fucking my ugly ass so I can populate the world with High IQ babies. This is of most importance because we need to offset the low IQ mud people breeding like rabbits so I have taken it as my personal duty to copulate with hot bitches and impregnate them with the seed of genius.

See, vaccines do have a positive side

It's amazing how many people on GLP have a higher IQ than Einstein. Perhaps we should rename this forum "Mensa"?

Good luck on that given that IS the way it occurred.

In the beginning was God, and then God said, "Let there be light!" And there was...

You've not yet figured out that we are all -- in fact everything is -- made of light. Think of yourself as slowed, compressed, compacted LIGHT.