Gilles Tran wrote:

> An anecdote about legendary stage actress Sarah Bernhardt: a young actress 
> once confided to her that she never had stage fright before going on stage. 
> Sarah Bernhardt promptly answered: "Don't worry, it comes with talent."

PWN3D!

> I can't see what it has to do with autism anyway. More seriously, what form 
> of autism do you suffer from? Frankly, it doesn't sound that you have issues 
> than other people don't experience sometimes in their life, particularly in 
> the geek/nerd population. I'm left with the strange feeling that if you're 
> autistic, then I'm autistic too and so are many people I know...

Some have argued that a "geek" is a person who suffers from autism...

(We all know the stereotypical nerd boy - the drooling kid with funny 
glasses and a silly voice who spends hours obsessing over equations or 
computers or something, and who lives in a delusional dream world and is 
imfamously useless with girls. All of which is pretty much a textbook 
description of somebody with some form of autistic dissorder.)

Of course, that's just a stereotype. Most *real* computer/maths 
enthusiasts aren't like that at all. But people with certain kinds of 
brain malfunction tend to gravitate towards computers, maths and/or 
stamp collecting...

In other words, being interested in computers doesn't make you have a 
brain disorder - having a brain disorder can make you interested in 
computers. ;-)

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