h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Aspergers Syndrome: The Little Professors - A7512167
Author: (TonsilRevenge) Soon to be Mork from Ork - U186749

Have at it, boys and girls!

marks.

Many scientists are thought to have suffered from AS. Just searched your Entry for 'Science' and 'Scientists' but drew a blank.

Roy Cropper (Coronation Street, UK TV is the archetypal AS sufferer.

I'll read the Entry properly later.

I've read this before, and I'm glad to see it here.

from me.

There's already an entry on Asperger's Syndrome in the Edited Guide. A592148. Unfortunately by the rules we can't have another one on exactly the same subject.

Options:

1. Rewrite this to be about a different aspect of Aspergers from the original.

2. Update the original in the Update Forum.

If it's renamed "Little Professors" would that work?

I've just read it (thoroughly!) and it is an extremely accurate description of the syndrome (Gawd help me; i know from RL experience!) plus is actually very amusing; many times whilst reading i "Yes! Oh dear me, yes!!"

Spotted a couple of minor typos, but nothing in general that would prevent it (in my opinion) from being used as is...maybe a little long if you are not personally interested in the subject.

Butwell done TR; te he, you know your stuff on this one don't you? I wonder why?

zdt

Perhaps:

"Little Professors - Dealing with an Asperger's Child"

The entry itself is excellent, tonsil.

There are few little formatting problems: you're going to have to remove all those tags at the end.

There are some American words and spellings: colour rather than color, endeavour rather than endeavor; and I'd be happier with cot rather than crib.

There are some mis-spellings: there should be no apostrophe in "its" (meaning belonging to it). It's "pedantic", not "pedantic".

House style:

Use 'single quotes' rather than "double quotes".
Don't put full stops after abbreviations, for example in IQs.

Oops. I meant to say:

It's "pedantic", not "pendantic".

Great feedback there, Gnomon - and I reckon with a few little pick-ups this entry will fly. Fascinating subject that I would imagine touches on aspects of the lives of many of us here (I certainly identify with the urge to blurt out everything I know on some topics, which might explain a lot).

I know you explain the abbreviation 'aspies' but it might still upset some people. Just something to think about. Other than that, and Gnomon's comments, I really like this.

Mork - Thank you for popularising this issue. It is an issue that I have twenty five years expertise in but still know little about. Though I think you need to put more emphasis on there being a scale, and where the extremes lie. I tend to just go or ask if i need to use the loo. I think you need to tone down the humor and concentrate on the facts and research abit more.
(that means happy!)

Tonsil, what a very very good read. Its extremely useful.

There is another entry about aspergers but it is factual, this tells you about the real thing, they don't compare. Like one article about the chemicals in coke and another that tells you about the taste of coke. There should be room for both articles in the guide.

As for the term aspies, it is what people with aspergers call themselves. They have chosen to reclaim a word which was once used as an insult, I think we should respect their choice. Many groups reclaim previously derogatory terms, it is a positive act which only people not in the group worry about and want to protect them from the perceived non-pc nature of it.

I think there are a just a couple of formatting issues.

Footnotes should be at the end of the previous word

and the blank space at the end need to go

this is excellent stuff

one wee thing, I saw a reference (or possibly two) to "normal" children. Is that the sort of phrase we need to use here?

I have to say, I like the Aspies word. If that's what people with AS want to use to refer to themselves, more power to them.

They do in general use this word; see this site.

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.org/phpBB2/

I think this is one of the best Guide Entries i have seen on hootoo; there is immense confusion about this subject & it's far more widespread than most people realise.

zdt

"I think you need to tone down the humor"


"Do you really want to hurt me?"

Gotcha, Gnome.
Thanks, Jim.

Greetings, all.

Hmm. I'll look into the "normal" thing.

Basically this was written off the top of my head in a couple of days.
I had no intention of submitting it in it's current form until I was cajoled by a few fans of it who read it in the WW.

Anyway, I'll do my best under the circumstances.

With regard to the title, the use of the colon and additional words should separate this from the other Aspergers article.

Kinda like people who do an article on Queen and then someone else does an article on Queen: the "A Night At The Opera" album.

Or, we could retitle it "The Little Professors: a variety of lunchmeat in the Aspergers smorgasbord"...

"Footnotes should be at the end of the previous word"

"The Little Professors: a variety of lunchmeat in the Aspergers smorgasbord"

me likes, nods

but then again, Jimster is being rather strict on my choises of titles recently

Gotcha.

Changed it to 'The Little Professors: A vibrant hue in the Autistic rainbow'

Changed some other things according to orders.

Will get to the spleling in a bit.

Ghetto Steve (Im spielberg) to help with Spelling (Aaron) maybe.

I appeal to whoever to NOT lose the humour in this; i can't express strongly enough that whatever other problems Aspies may have; they can be the funniest people on earth; & often are not only using language in amazingly wondeful ways, but "hey" sending themselves up too.

"Up where?" they say...do we end up sending up???

It's lovely. You enter a world of giggles if you love an Aspie!

zdt

>>You enter a world of giggles if you love an Aspie!

something I can vouch for personally.

adds bulk to the keep the humour campign