Proof (for laymen) that Aspergers is real

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It could just be high functioning autism but IMHO this guy could be the poster child for severe Aspergers (and not autism).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_McCollum

His diagnosis is Asperger's, so I don't see any reason to question that. And since Asperger's was already known to be a form of high functioning autism (even before the "official" change in terminology), your saying 'it could just be HFA' is.....strange.

I'm not so sure he's a good example of Asperger's, tho'. The fact he breaks the law to get what he wants doesn't exactly provide the best example, and there are already people out there who want to view Aspies as gun-carrying butchers after one or two shooting incidents were said to have involved someone on the spectrum.

Let's prefer people who know their trains (or whatever) and use the knowledge in some innocent way. This guy? Please....no.

I got used to going into whatever place I wanted during college, and once, on a bored bored bored night during spring break, got chased around for two hours by security guards in the pasadena civic auditorium, but triumphantly eggscaped out the door through which I had slithered, but it taught me my lesson, and I confined my eggsplorations to on campus locations after that, eggsept for the time that I convinced some people to jump over a fence to go into some building under renovation, was it hoover tower, while visiting stanford.

Lol, that'd be bunny funny, bunny.

idk about others but I am too scared of getting in trouble to ever break the law. Sometimes I break rules if they do not register - but not intentionally. He does not just have to have aspergers alone for this behavior. I think he has a criminal disorder outside of aspergers.

After reading this, All I can wonder is why they didn't give him a job!! He could have proved to be their best employee! He's definitely enthusiastic about it. At least create some position for him as a volunteer.

This story depresses me. Instead of being given a chance to do something he could excel at, he spent a good amount of his life in jail for trying (I understand he went about it illegally) to pursue his passion.

As was mentioned in the other thread he is out on parole and is going to try an contact agencies to help him get a job. I would not hire him to drive people because he might go where he feels like. I could see him working in the NYC Transit museum and library.

On a personal note I wonder if I will meet him at one of the support groups I attend in NYC.

I understand this guy's need to pursue train things, I have this same need to pursue the things that I am intensely obsessed with.

I do kind of feel for the guy, but I can also understand why they didn't give him a job. I'm sure the salary was not the issue, because he probably would have worked for free, but would you really entrust something to a person who has repeatedly gone against your will (not to mention - the law) to do what he wants? He just seems too unstable for anyone to give him a chance.

We'd have been friends in college.

my dorm mates thought I was crazy to sneak into abandoned buildings and I thought they were crazy to get piss pants drunk so often.

This reminds me of a habit I had in high school. I found out that the local middle school left all doors unlocked after hours until 7pm for the cleaning crews. I would go over a few times per week and read their library books and borrow animals from their biology lab. I had a few hamsters for a while, mice, a rabbit, and even a lizard at one point. I'd borrow them for a few days, then bring them back. Same with the library books-- borrow for a few days, then bring them back. Never got caught for it.

The man could have just ridden on the trains. That would have been pursuing his interest.

I don't think we really need anymore proof that Asperger's is real. There's plenty of evidence on the internet and in textbooks. Most of the people who think it's fake will never be convinced that it's real unless there is someway to easily prove it to them experimentally, in a way that they couldn't possibility misconstrue the results, without using any big words or already documented evidence. And we'd need to do that experiment over and over again for each and every one of these ignoramuses, because there's no way that we'd ever reach more than a small percentage of them through any form of media.