"Einstein Syndrome," Do You Fit It?

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Family Pattern

Close relatives in analytical occupation (engineer, scientist, mathematician)....Yes
Close relatives who are musicians, sometimes professionally...No
Close Relatives Who talked late...Not sure
Parents have high education level (59% four years of college)..No, but I believe that was only due to lacking financial resources and the area/timeframe they grew up in.

Individual Pattern

Majority are boys...No, female
High IQ...a bit above average
High analytical and/or musical abilities...Yes
Extremely good memory (to photographic)...Very
Unusual concentration and absorption in what they are doing...Yes, to the extent of losing site of everything around me.
Highly selective interests with achievement in some areas and ineptness in others...Selective, but varied
Precocious ability to read and/or use numbers and/or use computers...Yes
Late in socializing with their peers...Didn't care to.
Delayed Speech Development (Two years and up for full sentences)...Somewhat.
27 % of boys dislike meeting new people...Yes, but female.
Late in being toilet trained...No
Fascinated with mechanical things...Very much so.
Like building things...Yes
Like putting puzzles together...Yes, love them.
Strong-willed...Extremely

The Einstein Syndrome sort of fits me, but in addition I'm on the spectrum.

I've read Sowell's two books, and while some of his subjects may be on the spectrum, he emphasizes repeatedly that most of these kids are socially normal - they just don't talk on schedule. This is completely different from people who are on the spectrum, who may or may not be speech delayed, but who are not socially normal regardless. There is a world of difference between being speech-delayed and being autistic.

I agree that he doesn't understand autism very well, and that some of these kids may well be autistic. But I think you miss the point of this book if you miss the part where speech delay (+ analytical giftedness) do not equal autism.

It is possible to fit the criteria of Einstein Syndrome and not be on the spectrum at all or need any intervention at any point in your life. If you are not willing to consider this possibility, you are wasting your time reading his books, since this is the point he is trying to make. He's worried about late talkers being misdiagnosed and subjected to unnecessary and potentially harmful "treatment" when all they need is to be left alone to develop at their own pace. And while I also believe that much "treatment" that is out there is probably also harmful to people on the spectrum, nevertheless people on the spectrum do need some sort of help at some point, and Sowell's late talkers mostly don't.

This WP blog http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... w&jid=7652 suggests that much more research is needed.

Z

Hey, I posted before I knew we could win crayons.

I think I was an early talker rather than a late one. And I am not mathematical at all. But, I probably would get the PDD-NOS diagnosis tather than the aspergers one.

Most of these characteristics don't fit me. I didn't speak late, for one thing, but most of them still don't apply to me.

Honestly this sounds like a load of nonsense to me, an attempt to put a label on something that doesn't really need a label.

The point being missed is all views expressed come from one place, Normal People.

The Normal view is they were created perfect.

Known cursed people, who are not perfect,

Crazy people,

ret*ds,

Smart ret*ds.

Cursed people who can get away with it,

The larger,

The richer.

The only group it is safe to pick on in these politically correct times are the smart ret*ds.

To keep them from forming a gang they are seperated by such silly things as when they spoke.

Late speaker is some curse, normal is excluded from group A, put in group B, and early speakers must be killed, for I hear nothing about them.

By IQ groups are chopped up some more, then things like eye contact, giving a damn what other people think they deserve, "He's not respecting me!"

So yes, I feel that we are a modern African nation, carved out of three tribes lands, and united by Colonials that do not speak any of the languages, but want to make all the rules, like no changing borders in the Post Colonial Era, which means after they were run out. They are now so pure that it would be racism and aggression for tribes to join by traditional lands and language. Colonials were not thrown out, they Ascended.

Having dumped as hard as they could on the cursed, so the great normal powers will rule all, they now find that some of the children of their group seem cursed.

For the same traits that a native would be cursed for, they now want a Special Dispensation for their children, Einstein Syndrome.

Although identical to a condition that is reason to drug and oppress natives, they add a few key points, parents are educated, professionals, and have money=Einstein Syndrome.

It is just a natural range of perfect normal people.

"Show me a sane man, I will cure him." Carl Jung

Interesting supposition, so why not?

Poetry and art were my achievements as a child. And reading, spelling and grammar. But not social skills though.