12-year-old takes aim at Einstein's theories

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Originally Posted by Platapus

12 year old in college. I feel sorry for him. What kind of social and emotional development can this kid have? And the Aspergers does not help.

Kinda sad actually. I wish him the best of luck in life, I fear he will need it.

Autiosm is not all the same. If he really is autistic, it depends, and eventually you cannot judge social factors and their meaning for him the same way you judge them for you and me.

I admit that I always was fascinated by Autism in my psychology years. And I am not so certain like the mainstream that we really should call all forms and grades of it as a deviation in the meaning of "illness". I think it is possible that such people, at least some of them, are not more or less sick than a bnat that lives in a world it perceives by very different standards of experience - or is ultrasonic orientation in an environment a disease now? Autistic people do not so much soffer from the reality context - as they perceive it - they are live in. They seem to suffer more from us "normnal" peoples's colliding and contradicting behavior based on our, different reality perception.

Also, autism is more widespread than many people know, and it has many different shades and grades. I suspect, for example, that I also feature autistic characteristics myself, in my social behavior. And I hold every bet that quite some people in this forum also qualify for a decription of being autistic to some degree. Some psychologists estimate that up to 15% of the population may be autistic in some way.

If the video tells me one thing, that not so much that he is autiostic, but that he has a very big ego and boasts with self-confidence. At least on the surface. What it looks like inside of somebody - is always a different thing, isn't it.