scott wrote:
Satoshi Tajiri has allegedly been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.[1][2] He has been described by Nintendo officials as exceedingly creative but "reclusive" and "eccentric,"[3] characteristics consistent with Asperger's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_TajiriIs this why this was posted in the general autism forum?[/quote]
Apparently, the germ of his idea of Pokemon came from collecting bugs and other small creatures as a child - the design of Poliwag, for instance, came from looking at a tadpole and noticing how you can see the spiral of its insides through the skin.
I love bugs.