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- eltardo, on 07/12/2008, -14/+130Sadly, the stupid people are procreating faster than smarter people.
- joethedouchebag, on 07/13/2008, -3/+85misleading title, this article is about how "Autism Genes Are Linked to Early Learning", not about a "geek syndrome"
just throw some buzzwords in your title and the world will digg you - irfanmp, on 07/12/2008, -3/+45Like in "Idiocracy"
- LiamIsOnFire, on 07/12/2008, -2/+41I'm not sure how I can tell, but you definitely only read the summary.
- usafdave, on 07/13/2008, -1/+30welcome to Costco... ...I love you
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+28http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=autism-genes-t ...
Original article without the blogspam. - vinceislegend, on 07/13/2008, -5/+27Highly technical people don't have children.
- HairyFotr, on 07/13/2008, -6/+26Many children diagnosed with autism tend to show vast improvement when they are placed in environments that allow them to practice learning repetitively...
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -4/+20Many children diagnosed with autism tend to show vast improvement when they are placed in environments that allow them to practice learning repetitively...
- skyshock1, on 07/13/2008, -1/+17They have to. Their offspring are the ones that are most likely to remove themselves from the gene pool. Sorta like how fish produce TONS of eggs, but only a small fraction of those will live to pass on their genes to the next generation?
Children of well-educated parents are usually more viable, so numbers don't have to be as great. - Procure, on 07/13/2008, -2/+14Dont worry scroe, plenty of tards go on to live kick ass lives. My last wife was tarded, shes a pilot now...
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -1/+12The ability (or possibility) for genes to regain some of their normal function is quite remarkable.
- tidu, on 07/13/2008, -3/+13welcome to journalism, this was established 150 years ago.
- AZTriGuy, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7Come on, Aspergers is nowhere close to "Rain Main", which is more of an autistic savant. Asperger's is generally known to be a lack of tact or empathy with emotions, not being able to count cards or matchsticks like "Rain Man" did.
Asperger's is on the autistic spectrum, it is related to the overall disorder. They are two sides of the same coin, if you will. You are right though, nothing like schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder, those are indeed two completely different things. - Spanktacular, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6No; but fortunately, you're in the minority.
As diagnostic tools and criteria improve, diagnostic rates increase. It's just that simple. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -4/+10I'll digg the grave, you guys bury.
- Icanndiggit, on 07/13/2008, -0/+5Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Did you just imply that Geek Squad is highly technical?
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+6this just means that the smart people will have more workers, on second thought that's not how it works. The A-holes make it to the top in corporate life.
There was an informal study done on greed and it's quite interesting. There was this guy who was retired so for a little money on the side he would sell dough nuts. He went around to office buildings and he would only ask for donations. As he picked up the money from the box he realized the higher in status up the chain he went, the less donations people would give him. Meaning those people that are higher up are douches/less charitable. - Alex2, on 07/13/2008, -1/+6Don't like geeks? Get the hell off the internet.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+6Wait Digg has told me for years that this was caused by mercury in vaccinations.
Jeeesh, yet another in the long list of things that Digg was completely wrong about. - jecobo, on 06/11/2009, -0/+3I don't even know what that means ..but I think I like it.
- Gutterpunk, on 07/13/2008, -0/+3The blog spam that got linked too added that part. The article that the blog spam cannibalized (here http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=autism-genes-t ... never do that dubious link.
- AutumnElayne, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3I'm a girl who's been taking apart computers since I could turn a screwdriver. Both my kids are on the "autistic spectrum" and that's fine. If that diagnosis existed when I was a kid, I'm positive my parents would have gone to the great lengths of therapeutic de-programming that exists today.
I make sure my kids are being educated in a way that works for them, because normal classes did very little for me. Other than that, they are AMAZING. My 7 year old builds robots, and my 6 year old is something of a savant at video games ...among many other inventive and endearing traits. I understand that they need time alone to assemble their ideas organically, and try to instill that -other than being kind to people-, there isn't really a right or wrong way to do things, just because another person says so.
So, yeah, hollyhock100, I have every confidence that my kids could cure cancer, save the planet, or whatever else their gifts compel them to do.
I don't care what anyone says, the world needs people who think like this.
I'm glad my geeky female ass brought them into existence. - Gutterpunk, on 07/13/2008, -0/+3Digg might often be wrong, but I don't recall any article about a possible link between mercury and autism going down well... Usually those article have a long thread of people calling bull at the a few crazies who are on to the conspiracy.
- B08ama, on 07/13/2008, -1/+4"This is one of the first studies to offer genetic evidence for the idea that children with autism can actually reformat their brains if placed in the right environment. There has been anecdotal evidence that autistic people can benefit from specialized learning environments, but it was never clear what the genetic basis for these recoveries might be."
There's no way in the world that a "specialized learning environment" can make people less socially inept, damnit. People keep talking like high-functioning autism and Asperger's (those two are the only members of the autism spectrum that should be referred to as a geek syndrome) as something that needs to be tweaked, fixed, or cured. What they (the people) aren't getting is that, here, you need to apply the concept of "different" instead of trying to label those minds as better or worse. In my experience, I've seen kids with Asperger's own the asses of regular kids. - bagboyrebel, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2who said we don't want to be called geeks, many of us think of it as something to be proud of.
- nathanww, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2Depends on what they're doing. Certainly jobs like sales probably won't work so well, but autistic people also tend to have a high "systemizing" tendency combined with an ability to store massive amounts of information about subjects they are interested in, so they really have an advantage in STEM fields.
- e2superman, on 07/13/2008, -1/+3Science at work on Digg. Calling all qualified 12th grade honor science students. Edumicate us.
- Gutterpunk, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2Tweaked, yes. Fixed or cured? No.
Asperger is totally different IMHO, and I can see how someone can live with it, but if "mild" autism was the same as asperger, it would be called asperger.
You can't cure autism, but you sure as hell can tweak the behavior of an autistic kid through specialized education. - nathanww, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2"Rain Man" was fictional, and the kind of autism that he had is so rare that it's not even really considered in discussions about it.
The general scientific opinion right now is that there's nothing inherently different between AS and "classic" autism, mainly just a divide in language skills. - bassoondux, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2It's in the book Freakonomics, and it's cited in there.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2It's based on Kim Peek, he's not even autistic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek - localzuk, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2But how about in later life? Do you think a person with aspergers will have as easy a time at working their way up a career ladder compared with someone without the syndrome?
- unconfirmed, on 07/13/2008, -2/+3FTA:
Most studies of autism link it to genetics. The condition is often referred to as the "geek syndrome" because some studies have shown a high incidence of autism in areas like California's Silicon Valley, where highly technical people are having children together.
It's a quote from the first line of the article. Seems like a perfectly legit title to me. - Gutterpunk, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Want to not be called stupid? Stop making stupid comments
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Genetics is funny. Ostracize and disclude those who are "different" and these lowly forms are forced to breed amongst themselves and create even worse children.
Oh wait, sorry. Turns out they were the next step in evolution and your self destructive ***** sapien tendencies have given rise to a new world order. Baby, it's just one word. Logic.
Suck it dry, meatbags. - GrantTheGr8, on 07/13/2008, -3/+4Many... nevermind. I think it's already dead.
- kissaki, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Arrogance. Pure arrogance. The planet doesn't share your biases about "stupid" and "intelligence." Enjoy your smug existence before returning to The Void.
- HairyFotr, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Don't open... It's a virus.
- nathanww, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1FTA:Autism genes are associated with early learning and are essentially designed to be reprogrammed — so, given the right learning environment, children born with autism could rewire their brains and be spared the worst effects of this disorder.
and...
"Often, autistic children have problems with the genes that help them learn by forming synapses between neurons in the brain. Either the genes are deleted or dormant."
hm,okay, apparently my genes are "designed to be reprogrammed" and I don't have any synapses in my brain. I have no idea as to how ones designs a gene, but oh well...
This is what you get when uninformed neurotypical people try to write about autism. - localzuk, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1But how would someone with aspergers get such a job? The entire issue is that they don't have social skills, so will come across badly in any interview.
- KloroFormd, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1OpenDNS' PhishTank service claims the site hosting the video is bad.
Being it needs an Active X plugin, I say ***** you, sir. - genconkeeper, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1This is old news. "All Things Considered" had a story about this two years ago about the SV having the highest rates of autism in the world. Which they're experts said was pointing toward a genetic component for autism. Many of the parent were borderline, Asperger's, and in the normal population they don't marry and don't have kids, but in Silicon Valley they do. Still that was early findings.
- DarkDx, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1I see what you did there.
- GorfTron, on 07/13/2008, -2/+2Or becomes the evening assistant manager at McDonalds.
- JackpotCity, on 07/14/2008, -1/+1I remember a poster in my old science class which read:
K's Constant: The intellegence on the planet is constant, but the population is increasing.
I have to be honest, but sometimes I think it's spot on. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+2aspergers is so overly self diagnosed by loser nerds with no social graces
- Roshani, on 07/14/2008, -1/+1We say it this way common sense is not so common thats the reason this is happening
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