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I hope my pathetic memory gets my favorite
Doctor Johnson quote right:
"Nothing is more doomed than a scheme for
mirth."
Of Asperger's ... and I sincerely
sympathize with the authentic difficulties families have with it (if it indeed
exists) ...
Still, what an
odd, curious disease that floods our world with such beauty
and such remarkable achievements.
Perhaps, like pregnancy and childbirth, it
is a matter for doctors, but it is most assuredly NOT a disease. It is
a phenomenon we are all fortunate to share our world with, and something we
ought more appropriately to rejoice and celebrate than label a
disease.
Bob
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Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:35
PM
Subject: RE: [F_minor] RE: F_minor
Digest, Vol 42,Issue 4 / Mark Lancaster's question re GG & Asperger
Syndrome
And just to add a bit of chili powder to the keg of explosive
missives, I am a big fan of the brilliant English writer, Dr. Samuel Johnson,
who it is now presumed suffered (very badly) from Tourette's Syndrome.
This did not stop his prodigious output and having full access to his
monumental intellect. His suffering was on the outside, on his
uncontrollable body quirks and not on the inside where his mind roamed
free. Perhaps it was a bit like this for our beloved
G.G.?
Kind regards,
Fred Houpt
Toronto, Ontario
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