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07 Oct 2009, 11:50 am

Stumbled upon this online:

Coping With Asperger's: A Survival Manual for Mark Zuckerberg

and watched a few videos where the writer seems to base his half-serious "diagnosis" upon.

It got me thinking. If I was an aspie computer programming wiz and wanted to meet friends and new people without having to actually meet them...well hell, I would just create a neat little program for myself that would address just that and see what happens. Also since I'm quite literal-minded, I'll call it "Facebook" :wink:

The world just gets more aspie the more I explore heh



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05 Oct 2010, 4:55 pm

I think he definitely has Asperger's based on the interview i saw of him being interviewed by sarah lacy at sxsw


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07 Oct 2010, 1:43 pm

Would an Aspie create anything social?



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07 Oct 2010, 2:50 pm

Lonermutant wrote:
Would an Aspie create anything social?


Some Aspies can have improved social skills as they start to grow up and learn from the world around them. AS varies from person to person. I don't know much about Mark, but I think this is interesting. Watch out Bill Gates. :wink:


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07 Oct 2010, 2:52 pm

Lonermutant wrote:
Would an Aspie create anything social?


Alex created this forum...



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07 Oct 2010, 4:05 pm

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People with Asperger's want contact with other people very much; we're just pathetically clueless at it, that's all.

Donald Morton--Mozart and the Whale by Ronald Bass

Of course an Aspie would make something social! :)


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07 Oct 2010, 8:55 pm

I certainly would not be surprised. If he is, I have another Aspie to thank for my number one form of social therapy.



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08 Oct 2010, 12:13 am

While I wouldn't know if he is an Aspie, he did a good job on the Simpsons last Sunday.


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08 Oct 2010, 9:08 am

visagrunt wrote:
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People with Asperger's want contact with other people very much; we're just pathetically clueless at it, that's all.

Donald Morton--Mozart and the Whale by Ronald Bass

Of course an Aspie would make something social! :)


I cried when I realized what he meant.
I know how it feels, to want friends but not knowing how to get people not to walk away from you. :cry:

And Aspies are not Schizoids. Schizoids don't want sociakl interactions, Aspies are just aweful at it...


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08 Oct 2010, 10:24 pm

Lonermutant wrote:
Would an Aspie create anything social?


If you think about it - forums and sites like facebook reduce NTs ability to communicate in ways that are difficult for ASD. No "non-verbal" communication, for example.



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08 Oct 2010, 10:59 pm

t0 wrote:
Lonermutant wrote:
Would an Aspie create anything social?


If you think about it - forums and sites like facebook reduce NTs ability to communicate in ways that are difficult for ASD. No "non-verbal" communication, for example.


agreed.

by the way, that was your 999th post. 1 more for 1,000!


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08 Oct 2010, 11:09 pm

there was another thread on this idea some time ago and i dismissed the idea immediately .. (without reading up on it or giving it any real thought, i'll admit)

i just have to wonder if someone with AS could so blatantly disregard his users' desire for privacy? every time there is a change to the site it tends to be something new that defaults to being visible to everyone on the internet. it's a full time job keeping things private on there. wouldn't someone with Asperger's understand people freaking out about this?


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09 Oct 2010, 1:58 pm

alex wrote:
t0 wrote:
Lonermutant wrote:
Would an Aspie create anything social?


If you think about it - forums and sites like facebook reduce NTs ability to communicate in ways that are difficult for ASD. No "non-verbal" communication, for example.


agreed.

by the way, that was your 999th post. 1 more for 1,000!


Agreed too!

(Even though I'm not an aspie (not for sure, not for sure not: my diagnosis suspected a communicational issue which I have for sure, and my neurologist suspects Asperger's), I don't get non-verbal communication.)
Oh, and congrats to him! :king:


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10 Oct 2010, 11:02 am

Facebook is EVIL INCARNATE! Nuff said.



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15 Oct 2010, 5:15 am

If Facebook was a country,it would rank behind China and India in population.
China is Communist
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Facebook is Curcumstantial to good and bad publicity.



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08 Nov 2010, 2:40 am

In The Social Network, Jessie Eisenburg portrays Zuckerberg with many Aspie traits. There's even a scene where he rocks gently back and forth. There are several scenes that serve very little purpose other than to communicate that Zuckerberg has AS.