Aspergers link (was Re: PEP 312 - Making lambdas implicit worries me, surely it's just the name 'lambda' that is bad...)

Michele Simionato mis6 at pitt.edu
Wed Mar 19 17:57:32 EST 2003


Carl Banks <imbosol-1048094729 at aerojockey.com> wrote in message news:<_22ea.58441$68.21554 at nwrdny01.gnilink.net>...
> Just to avoid having my words misconstrued too much, and to nitpick:
> if someone can't go to party, then they have agoraphobia, or social
> phobia, or avoidant personality disorder, not Asperger's "syndrome."
> I don't think Asperger's syndrome exists, period.  If they have a
> mental problem, it's something else.
> 

Okay, Carl your point is clear. Sorry if I have misconstrued too much
your words. Anyway, I think these kinds of problems do exist, even if
probably in many cases they are exaggerated; if the right name for 
them is "Asperger" or some other name, it is a secondary issue to me.

Regards,
                                                     Michele




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