Williams syndrome; could be a natural match

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Williams Syndrome is a syndrome where people are born with missing chromosomes are quite happy and social people no matter how they look or act, they have hypersensitivities too. i never met a williams syndrome person because it happens 1 in every 7500 babies so its quite rare. what do you think

I've been blessed to meet a couple and converse briefly. You're right, they're definitely good people - It's hard to not get along with them even as an aspie, they're genuine and benevolent. The ones I've talked with, I'm sure could figure out that I'm not being cold, I just have few expressible thoughts, which was fine by them.

The mos interesting thing I noticed was that the "social chameleon" tendencies of Nt's are fully there but without the subversive motives. They're being -actually- hospitable.

I don't envy them at all because they have so many health problems and are lucky to live into their 50's, and because we live in a world where trusting everyone and wanting to be their friend can be completely fatal, more than ever now. I once saw a segment on 20/20 about them and the fact that most of the stuff that was said was mostly positive bothered me. The media rarely if ever says anything positive about being aspie and makes it sound like we're nothing but a burden on society and even that we're all potentially dangerous psychopaths who go on shootings. In the 20/20 segment a guy was in a room surrounded by kid's with Will's. Boy he was brave, the kids asking him all kinds of personal questions like if he had a girlfriend. If I were in room with even NT kids I'd be ready to run out the door.

I've met folks who had Williams Syndrome over the years and they were very nice people.

Then again, it's always the individual, not the diagnosis when you need to interpret an individual by they themselves and them.

I've not read much about Aspergers being portrayed that badly in the media, do you have a link to any?

I may have met someone with Williams Syndrome about 9/10 years ago. I was working as a nurse in a nursing home. Two brothers in their 20's came by to visit their grandmother. The younger brother, probably around 25 or 26, kept smiling at me. He was kind of touchy feely, too. He told me I was goodlooking and I should give him my number so we could hang out some time! Believe me, I was beyond shocked with this guy. He doesn't know me from Adam and he's talking to like he's known me for months? He seemed simplistic, almost as if he had Down's Syndrome/mental retardation, but he spoke well and didn't have that characteristic DS look. Finally, when it was time for him to leave, he didn't want to. He told his brother he wanted to stay there with me! His older brother just shook his head and the two of them left. Quite a bizarre incident. I don't know if he had Williams or not but it sure was...interesting.

One of my first friends, at primary school, had Williams Syndrome. I didn't know that at the time, only that she had a learning disability and looked a bit different from the other kids. She was a delightful little girl, but strangely, she was the shy one and I was the confident chatty one (I was about 7yrs before I became shy). I don't think she was naturally shy, she just lost her confidence at school, as other kids made fun of her and she was a couple of years older than the rest of us, obviously placed at the most appropriate academic level, so this might have had an impact too. We were a perfect pair, as she felt comforted by me and she was genuinely grateful for my friendship. I've always been very accepting of everyone, so I had no issues with being friends with her, unlike the other kids in the class. We lost touch when we moved on to our next schools. I do often wonder about what she's up to these days, but I can't find her anywhere.

i have the feeling that if i were lucky enough to meet one, i'd love 'em to pieces.