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

Entry: Aspergers Syndrome: The little professors - A7512167
Author: (TonsilRevenge) Soon to be Quprit Suvwix - U186749

This is a topic close to my thesaurus.
Any help would be appreciated.
Personal experience can be useful.

I don't feel like it's clear how the "Little Professor" concept relates to Aspergers. When I was about three years old I thought I knew everything and used to pontificate at great length about, for example, how the Sun was four-and-a-half years old, but that doesn't mean I have Aspergers. Do you think you could explain the ways in which the idea connects to Aspergers?

Sure.

Can you:

Remove the header at the beginning, it's not needed.

Work the bit in bold at the beginning into the main text.

Remove first person references (yes, 'this researcher' is first person...)

Break up the text with headers to make it a bit easier to navigate.

Sure.
At this point, I am working on the body.
Still filling space, not even editing, yet.

"This researcher" is more allowable than "I" and is used in the edited guide.
References available if necessary.

Am also trying to find ways to eliminate all the uses of the word "often" in the text.
Alternative synonyms are avoiding me.

"Avoid Writing in the First Person

Because h2g2 is a collaborative guide, we may add in comments, updates and other material from other Researchers and we'll credit them. Having an entry in the first person wouldn't make sense with a number of authors credited, so third-person approaches are preferred.

There are exceptions to this: there are certain topics that do benefit from being told in the first person, and it might well be that your entry is one of them. Just don't use phrases like 'I think...' or 'in my opinion...' because they're signs that your entry is almost certainly going in the wrong direction."

From the guidelines.

Of course I could change it to "one researcher", but that is silly until I have collaborators.

"This researcher realizes that this also describes sport fanatics and Harry Potter aficionados, but on the whole, most of them are not Aspies"

Could be re-written as:

"Many children (and indeed adults) will become obsessed with certain things, such as football or Harry Potter; but fanatacism, even when linked to depth of knowledge, does not on its own indicate Aspergers Syndrome."

I'm also not happy with the way you've called people with Aspergers Syndrome 'Aspies' - is it what they prefer to be called?

This is partially a test because I've never done this before, and
because someone asked me!

Ok now what do I do.....

As for the name "Aspies". I have been in this for a long time.
I've seen some that do like it and some that don't, but more often
this seems to be a name that they have chosen. I'm not sure if they
would like NTs to call them that or not. Maybe we'll find out.

Another old fight was if you call someone autistic or someone with
Autism. I have seen autistics argue this strongly on both sides of
the issue.

but this was mostly a test post.
Ray

I'm an Aspie.
And I was a Little Professor.

Some things changed, per request, some things added.

Some of this is still unfocused, as I am writing off the top of my head.

"I'm also not happy with the way you've called people with Aspergers Syndrome 'Aspies' - is it what they prefer to be called?"

In an entry abbreviations are allowed, and nicknames are often necessary to avoid repeating a long or awkward title.
Since "neurotypicals" have no problem referring to people with Aspergers Syndrome as "retards", "weirdos", and "stupid", it would seem that the dimunitive and cute phrased "Aspie", as chosen by many Aspergers people, is much less offensive to them and shouldn't bother any "neurotypicals" except that odd contingent who see themselves as looking out for the "less fortunate" or are attempting to avoid unpleasant and Un-PC terminology.

In the professional arena, the idea that Aspies might have a sense of community or make decisions for themselves as a group has led to a backlash against the very sensibilities that the professionals are supposed to be sensitive to.

Hmm. I like that paragraph. I might add it to the entry.

Fair enough - it just seemed to me that you were using 'aspies' as your own abbreviation. If it's what people with Aspergers Syndrome call themselves then fair enough

Wow, I've rarely been accused of coinage.
Thank you.

"dimunitive and cute phrased"? Wow, part two. I must pwoofweed more carefuwwy!

Actually, now that I think of it, I may have made up one word in the entry.

Speaking of the entry, have you read the new parts?

Which word did you make up?

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