Joan L. Grove (Brewer) says:

On Jul 18, 2004, at 4:51 PM, John C. Dvorak wrote:

Dvorak’s Personal Newsletter 7/18/2004

First of all I apologize for those few of you who are STILL getting duplicates of my notes. Getting any merge-purge to work on this list is problematic and I’ll probably try something different shortly.

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I was reading your article on Asper syndrome and got cut off when I ventured to an outside link. This is due to your new automation issue–php. The way to keep from loosing your audience is to always use a new window for a link. target =”_blank” is the html code. What blew me away is that I couldn’t get back because the browser remembers.

I was reading your post about Asper Syndrome and wanted to reply… pooh. I have a web page about it. I was sent an article years ago by Peter Neuron about Gates and Asper also.

Here is where the article is: http://www.geocities.com/redmondrose/DigitalPie.htm

My web is a blog for people like Jodie Foster, Stephan Wolfram, Gates, Ted Turner and other… even Martha Stewart and Madonna. Consider the name of this web page. Digital Nation but I called the file DigitalPie. Do you know why? Well, you might want to consider Wolfram’s treatment of Digital Pi in his book. I wrote about it first. AND I’m the one rocking D.C. about it even now. This whole thing is such a kick… A New Kind of Science–Chapter 4, page 137 and the next page was even better… Stephan won his PhD at age 20. His book is a major break though in science as we know it. Greg Smith can see this problem with math also. It’s so flawed. He is the NeXT Generation. The_Clash.htm

Believe me, I’m anything but alone. What really needs to happen is for those of use with these gifts to do what I have Gates doing right now–withhold our talent the way a women withholds sex from a man until she gets what she wants. He liked that. What happened when Gates did this is he caused the stock market to crash in a Cascading Syndrome he wasn’t wishing to do this, but they just won’t listen to him and everyone in the industry ganged up on him. I knew what he had done and what the results would be.

I began my blog in 1990 via the Internet and PC-W. We started the YES, Politically Correct Party. I use my situation at Microsoft to show the potential danger of trying to do what is right or save people from themselves. If you take the very smartest people in the world and start labeling them, drugging them and in essence try to make us normal your whole system and the world as you know it will end. We are at Critical Mass… and like too much snow on top of a very high mountain, the fall of even a twig can create an avalanche.

I believe many people with genius are being miss labeled with DD due to prejudice. I always use the Bell Curve for IQ to explain what it’s like. Of course you aren’t make social relationships as a child and may seem attached. YOU DON’T HAVE A PEER GROUP to relate to. You can also see though other’s falseness and lies. This is where the eye contact comes from. You intuit people with phi instead of analyze with your mind. Do you really think people like Wolfram and Greg Smith get through college by read a lot of books?

I was never labeled with anything until I was over 30 which blew me away. I grew up as a gifted child. I literally could draw 3D and take apart mechanical devices and put them back together and they worked. This was before I even started kindergarten. In kindergarten they didn’t know what to do with me. My family was poor at the time due to lay offs at Lockheed for my father. So I ended up in private school on scholarship. My father use to clean toilets and do things like that. The nuns were very protective but the other kids hated me. I have never known a time in my life when I wasn’t being harassed by someone. NEVER! Think about it.

You are just not normal. And trying to act like a normal person is really insane. And for someone to judge us because we don’t date or have active sexual lives is also insane. Yes, many normal people pursue us for our talent, but for many of use personal interactions with people with huge IQ differences would be the same as a normal person trying to marry or work in an environment surrounded by the mentally retarded.

And I can assure you that Bill Gates isn’t no even close to having either autism or asper syndrome. He is just plan neurotic from growing up with his parents and then getting into this mess called Microsoft. As I know him, he is one of the most loving and giving people on the planet. He is definitely able to develop an emotional bond. And he is so empathic that it is painful for him in certain situation. I am also and so is Martha Stewart. I’m really upset about what they did to her. She trusted people who then did things then she got blamed. Gates naively did the same…

This is what Leonard Da Vinci had to say about it:

Bestiary: Physiologus

1222 (7) Peace

We read of the beaver that wen it was pursued, knowing it is for the virtue in it’s medical testicles (genetics) and not being able to escape, it stops; and to be at peace with it’s pursuers, it bits off it’s testicles with it’s sharp teeth, and leave them to it’s enemies.

Note: He never married for a reason. Gates bought the Codex because of me. I use to quote from this in my e-mail to him. He was totally obsessed with it. That is why I’m now in a wheelchair after 14 years of both government and Microsoft harassment. But I’m partly hear buy my own choices. I knew what I had to do and that I couldn’t do it working for a company with a non-disclosure agreement. I wanted to tell the truth about bad science and evil people who make things up to control us. I wanted to save the children. So I took my Q from many others and gave all my research away. Boy did I create some major chaos when all those young guys started passing off my work as theirs.

I never lost my temper, yelled at my children or exhibited any of the neurotic behaviors that I have now. So yes I do know what Asper Syndrome is. If you had ever had a conversation with Bill’s father you would definitely know what his problem is. I can’t talk to the man without loosing my temper myself. Now he may be the one with Asper Syndrome… in fact, that may be a very typical trait of most lawyers AND politicians. I do believe that Shakespeare was of the same opinion as was Lewis Carroll.

Love to All the Children,
Redmond Rose~

Joan L. Grove (Brewer) Computer System Engineer/Artist/Humanist
Issaquah, WA 98027
425-392-3812

http://www.geocities.com/redmondrose
redmondrose@mac.com

Jen Kwok says:

I read your article in PC Mag back in April and sent a letter to the editor about it as I did not wish to register with the site in order to participate in the furums. I received no response, so I remain unaware if the feedback ever made its way to you.

I felt your article showed a very poor understanding of OCD.

People with OCD can have a variety of anxiety triggering obsessions which they attempt to cope with through compulsive behaviour. Neither the obsessions or compulsions are necessarily static nor are they the same from person to person, so it is just as likely that someone with OCD will go overboard deleting messages that just might have a virus as that they would feel the need to open everything for fear of missing something. Or they might respond exactly like someone without OCD, for that matter.

It’s equally erroneous to claim that “if OCD people fit in well in any sort of environment, it’s the modern office environment where the ailment may actually be a benefit and lead to rapid promotions.” Generously speaking, someone with OCD could be just as suited or unsuited for the office as the next person; however, someone with untreated or undertreated OCD will most likely be quite unsuited. Coping with untreated or undertreated OCD is typically time consuming, with the afflicted person feeling the need to perform mental or physical rituals over and over in order to alleviate constantly upwelling axiety inducing obsessions before the can do anything productive.

Perhaps you didn’t mean what you said about OCD seriously and you were merely trying to make a point about fighting virus propagation at the ISP level. Whatever the case, you do a disservice to the public by reinforcing widespread misinformation about OCD.