Please tell me this guy has aspergers...

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I watched this documentary in my Developmental Psychology class today.

Its interesting because the video never mentions the words "autism" or "aspergers" but watch it and you'll see what I mean. The guy does not appear right at the very beginning of the video but the documentary on him starts really early in the video. Edit: It starts at 1:25. ENJOY

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uTWZV-B-DI&feature=related[/youtube]

Reminds me of my childhood, except the school situation was the exact opposite. I went to an elementary school that more or less encouraged my odd behavior like that, to public school which discouraged it. Oh well. Hope that kid has a better life than I did...

Either way, he seems like a great kid (or maybe I am biased )

I tried the big personality test as part of the Psychology Class I just started taking (presently reading up on personality (Adorno et al and the F-Scale), Obedience (Millgram) and Social Learning (Bandura et al and his bobo doll experiment).

On the personality test I scored almost equally high on Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. I Scored Low on Extraversion.

To me he sounds more like creatively gifted than aspie.

Myself, I took the Big Five awhile back. I scored medium on Extraversion (my scores on this scale range from low to high depending on whether I'm thinking more about myself in my 'social' mode or myself when overloaded), high on Openness, low on Conscientiousness (executive dysfunction), somewhat low on Agreeableness and high on Neuroticism (that would be the PTSD).

He definitely seems Aspie to me. As for me, I just took the test, and I scored highest on Openness, followed by Conscientiousness and Agreeableness equal, then Emotional Stability (Neuroticism?), and lowest on Extraversion