This is pritty cool .

i know the animatoin frame rate was just the style of it , but for me it could have done with a slighty higher frame rate , and maby used other techneeks to achive a simular style , that way it wouldnt be so hard on the eyes but achive the same artistic affect.

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Ha, nice. Kid doesn't shy away from the tough questions

He's lucky he has such a well-adjusted, intelligent, loving mother. Not all parents of kids with Asperger's are like that. Not having a "social gene" can degrade into some pretty serious asocial behaviours. Props to her. Big ones.

She's actually a journalist with NPR. I heard this a while back. it's great stuff. But then, most everything they do there is interesting.

I've had a reasonable amount of experience with autism-spectrum disorders. I have a brother (adopted) about 16 years younger than me that has been diagnosed with PDD "Pervasive Developmental Disorder", an autism variant. I have a cousin diagnosed with Aspergers, on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of high vs. low functioning or however you want to politically-correctify that.

And then there is me, personally. I think that if I was born and growing up now instead of late Gen-X / early Gen-Y, I would probably be diagnosed with mild Aspergers. I was never very socially adept, I had obsessions more than an average kid, etc. The Aspergers kids that I know now remind me a lot of myself at their age.

I accept that Aspergers is a real thing, but to me it seems a LOT more nebulous than the opposite end of the autism spectrum. What I mean is, it is easy for me to analyze myself as being fairly asocial (different than antisocial, I think) and nerdy, but not necessarily clinically asocial and nerdy. The kids I know that have been diagnosed with Aspergers seem to be perhaps a little more pronounced in their display of "symptoms" than I was (/am?), but not to a great degree.

I guess it just seems like sometimes we're in a scramble to classify and diagnose "disorders" that lie not all that far away from the meaty area of the bell curve. Can't a nerdy kid just be nerdy? It worked OK for me.

@MilkmanDan, I think the DSM method of diagnosing mental disorders causes a lot of "sort of" diagnoses (almost everyone can answer yes to one or two or three of the questions for any diagnosis). You can just keep in mind that it's only really relevant to talk about labels like that if it's pathological, rather than just a quirk.

Some parents are perhaps a bit more eager to put a diagnostic label on their child, because it explains the confusing behavior of e.g. a moody teenager. Same goes for "is my baby using drugs?".

It might be healthier to be aware that no one behaves exactly like the textbooks say they ought to, and that doesn't have to be a reason to worry.

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Really touching.

OMG, I hate assburgers!

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