[extropy-chat] Re: [wta-talk] Libertarianism and the Autistic Spectrum (fwd from fehlinger at un.org)

[Paul Grant]

Actually, being a person of some severe* psychological abnormalities,
I'll play a card that is a favorite of mine when dealing with people
who I term "skittish";  the DSM-IV requires that the person who has
the disorder consider it a disorder (causitive of problems in need 
of resolution) for it to be classified as a disorder.

Now, knowing that, and starting with his assumption that everyone
is Narcissitic Personality Disorder, would anyone here say that they 
have personality tendencies that are severely interfering with their
lives and hence, require treatment?  That of course, would be the
direct implication of his "prognosis".

And having said, one can thus deduce he doesn't know what the fuck he
his talking about, since I do not see any questions to group members
of the form I just posed.

If he were smart, he could of course, make the statement that he is 
observing narcistic tendencies (and get away with that)/

omard-out

*I am weird.  No doubt about it. Confirmed from multiple external
sources.
I am a very open person, so I don't bother hiding my abnormalities in
the
slightest.  I don't see a point to continually trying to iceskate
uphill.



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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Max M
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:06 AM
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Subject: [extropy-chat] Re: [wta-talk] Libertarianism and the Autistic
Spectrum (fwd from fehlinger at un.org)


Eugen Leitl wrote:


> I discovered stuff on the Web that convinced me
> that a lot of folks in the Extropian/transhumanist community exhibit 
> many of the characteristics of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (as 
> described in DSM-IV)


<snip>

> However, it now seems to me that some of this atmosphere
> (and my perception of the atmosphere remains the same -- a smug, 
> self-satisfied lack of empathy with people who don't share their 
> particular hobby-horse -- and for that matter, a frequent lack of 
> empathy with each other!) may be due to a concentration among this 
> group (as with folks in SF fandom, the Trekkie world, the Role-Playing

> Game world, computer programmers, mathematicians, and science/
> engineering types in general) of a sub-clinical "shadow syndrome"
> of autism.  Not quite Asperger's Syndrome, even,
> just a mild echo of it.


Yeah right

And less than 5% of the worlds population are pshycologists and they 
have a very similar psychological profile.

So they they are outside the normal distribution, and thus sick.

That's a stupid argument ... and so is his.

But naturally it is easier to dismiss people if if you can label them 
with a mental disorder.

Personally I am glad, however, to belong to the diseased group of people

who created the majority of the worlds wealth and health.


regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark

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