Great Article on Asperger’s Syndrome

Here.

This sort of thing, along with other forms of autism, is currently epidemic in the US. No one quite knows why this is occurring. Part of the problem is assortative mating, in which AS persons who formally would not have married are now marrying and having children. This is because the tech field has found massive employment opportunities for these people. They come together to work in large corporations, and they meet up with each other under circumstances that would not have existed in the past.

There is a link at the bottom to a test to see if you have AS. The average person without AS scores 16. I scored a 12. I don’t have AS!

AS has become something of a fad diagnosis now. Anyone who appears strange, odd, shy or awkward in any way is given this diagnosis either by themselves of by others. I have talked to a couple of neurotics who told me that they thought they had it. One had anxiety and OCD issues and the other had Social Phobia. Neither of these people had AS! There are countless people who are socially shy or awkward or strange or odd who simply do not have AS. In fact, many neurotics appear strange or odd and often have serious issues in social situations.

Women and Brainy Males Again

In the comments to Guys, Will Your High IQ Get You Laid? Louie writes:

Haven’t read the other comments, but I’m sure someone said this. It’s not the high intelligence that turns women away, it’s uncharismatic, lower beta/omega-male, asperger personality disposition that tends to come with higher iq males that turns women away.

I don’t agree with that at all. Of course high IQ guys often have that omega/beta male Aspergers type personality, or at least neuroticism, which I think frankly is a lot more common. Is Aspies really all that common. Are nerdy White brainiacs really Aspie types or are they just neurotic or dull guys with no game?

From my own personal experience, I can tell that you I was once a very bermish guy myself. I’m not sure if I am anymore, because I’m neurotic! But I still think I may have some of that bermishness in me – that is, I know how to talk, dress and act. Believe me, my whole life, women and girls have not been the slightest bit interested in my brains. Maybe girls more than women! Women want a big, dumb macho guy.

Brains are an extreme turnoff. Many a woman has marvelled at my incredible brains. As they did so, they were also sending me the message that this either did not turn them on 1%, or they did not even understand it, or, that while it was fascinating and amazing, there was nothing even remotely sexual or turnon about it.

Women don’t get turned on by brains. Period.

Think about it. Human females are just like cavewomen. It may as well be 30,000 years ago for the vast majority of women. When you deal with women, just pretend it is 30,000 years ago and she’s a cavewoman. That’s the only way to understand her at all.

Women have not advanced one bit beyond the caves, and what’s worse, they are such slaves to their idiotic biology that they can’t even progress, because they don’t want to. Women are prisoners of their ancient biology and are incapable of thinking their way out of it or even wanting to. It’s not even possible for a woman to think, “Wow, this is really a stupid way of acting. For Chrissake, I’m acting like a cavewoman! This is dumb! I am going to move beyond my base animal biology!” The woman cannot do this.

The male can actually think his way beyond his biology and stop being a caveman. I know because I did it for many years. I only stopped doing it somewhat because I realized that society, and especially women, expect and demand nothing more than a caveman, and will ferociously attack any man who doesn’t play that role.

Let me give you an example.

A situation comes up, and a man has an emotional reaction, a primal, bestial, caveman reaction typical of our gender. I have had experiences like this many times. For a long time, I simply lied to myself and told myself that I was a “new man from the 1070′s” and I was beyond all that macho crap. Well, that didn’t really work. Now, I react like a beastly brute, of course, but I stop and think, “Whoa! You’re acting like Fred Flintstone! Forget that!”

And I just shut off that emotion and simply do not give in to it at all. Instead, I just replace it with a more civilized way to react which is competely the opposite of my genetic male programming.

I shut down the base feeling, negate it, wipe it out completely, draw up the completely opposite “metrosexual” feeling instead, and completely experience that feeling to the utmost. I can often control my emotions the way a machine operator can turn on and off a machine or even turn it up or turn it down.

I honestly do not think that females are capable of doing that at all. I’m not sure if they can control their feelings in the first place, and I am almost certainly sure that they cannot do what I just described above in the call out.

This is really a Nietzschian concept. The man (the ubermensch) is able to rise above. The woman simply cannot. She can’t even try to, because she doesn’t want to in the first place.

Asperger’s: The Fad Diagnosis

As you can see from the comments on this page, it seems that everyone and their uncle now has Aspergers. The comments are mostly from self-diagnosed Aspies or from women who are trying to dx their husbands or boyfriends.

A friend of mine received a dx recently of pre-Aspergers or slight Aspergers. I don’t believe there is such a thing. This is known as diagnosis creep. The dx was based on the fact that he is extremely introverted, talks to himself a lot when alone with more than one character and especially because he speaks in a monotone. I really doubt if that is enough for a dx. It’s not really ok to speak in a monotone and it’s a little odd to have multiperson conversations when you are alone, but that’s not enough for an Aspie dx if you ask me.

A very large number of introverts, especially neurotic introverts, are self-diagnosing as Aspergers. I think it’s preposterous. Just because you’re an introvert, even an extreme introvert, doesn’t mean that you have Aspergers.

There appear to be some core symptoms of Aspergers that seem to be necessary to make the dx.

Social problems: This means not so much being an introvert, or even an extreme introvert, but it means much more than that instead. Aspies have a hard time with social rules and social cues. They don’t display emotions very well and can’t read emotions in others. They often don’t get jokes. They take everything literally.

They talk too loud or too soft in public. They refuse to look people in the eye when they talk to them. One man, when talking to a 3rd party, always looked at his wife instead. They go on and on about subjects that no one else is interested in and they can’t tell that everyone is bored with them.

They lack empathy and are often rude towards others because they can’t comprehend that others have feelings and that they are offending them. They can’t read social messages in speech, tone of voice or facial expressions. They can’t seem to listen to others or understand that others have needs too.

When they speak, they often speak in a funny way. A monotone is not unusual. Typically, their speech lacks the ups and downs and inflections that a normal person’s speech does. It can have a lack of rhythm or an odd inflection. Speech may be unusually fast, jerky or loud. They may have facial expressions that are not appropriate for the conversation.

They may stand too close or too far away from the person while talking. They may watch the same show or movie over and over on TV and insist that others do the same. They have a narrow range of interests and find everything outside of their subject area boring and uninteresting.

They are often not interested in sex at all or have a very low sex drive. When they do have sex, they are said to be robotic. They do not like to display affection much. They actually prefer to be alone to the extent that it is almost strange.

They do not understand subtleties of language like humor, irony or teasing. They talk on and on about one subject,and attempts to shift the conversation away to something else are often unsuccessful. Their speech may seem almost incoherent, they often fail to supply context for comments and they do not suppress internal thoughts.

People with Aspergers often have anger issues and tend to explode into tirades from time to time. These resemble the temper tantrums of children.

The linked webpage says that Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Keanu Reeves, Al Gore, and Garrison Keillor all have Aspergers. I disagree, except in the case of Gates.

Since my friend only has monotone speech, funny talking to himself and extreme introversion, I don’t believe he is an Aspie.

If you read down the page and ignore the women bitching about their husbands and boyfriends, you can see some excellent examples of real life Aspergers people, often men.

Asperger’s Versus Normals and Social Skills

A commenter with Asperger’s Syndrome talks about AS and social skills:

I have a hard time being social when I’m tired, sick, in a bad mood or if I’m really inspired to do something else.

Aren’t you making a bit much of this so called disorder here? I mean, that describes tons of basically normal people. I’m thinking especially of my Mom. She can be pretty unpleasant sometimes, and I think she’s pissed at me, but it turns out she’s just tired after working.

Yes, normal people who are tired act irritable and antisocial.

Yes, normal people who are in a bad mood reflect that bad mood off on innocent people.

Yes, normal people who are sick are antisocial at best.

Yes, normal people who have something going on are often quite irritable and want you to get out of their face.

Actually, I don’t think behavior is normal at all, because I am way too easy going. I think it’s horrifying. But it’s basically the way normal humans act.

So you’re basically saying you act like everyone else. Ok, and?

I also tend to talk too much about particular interests even if it bores the people I’m with.

Ok, this is not so good. But once again, tons of normal folks act this way, especially men. For instance, I do this myself. It’s one of my terrible habits.

One thing is important though. Do you realize that you are boring people or annoying them. I do realize it of course, but it pisses me off! How dare these idiots get bored or annoyed at me! I’m saying something important here! Plus I hate “normal” society because other than say the fuckin weather, 100 trillion other subjects are automatically “offensive” in a way, even if you talk about them non-offensively. So I deliberately talk about “offensive” shit, like race for instance, mostly just to piss these idiots off. I do it in a pretty cool way, more or less anti-racist, but in most places, even that’s banned.

Race may not be discussed at all, period. So when I’m doing this, I’m often rebelling.

There’s also some male egocentrism involved. When the person is acting bored or annoyed, I get pissed! It’s an insult, and I don’t like to be insulted. So I respond to that insult by talking about it even more, just to piss them off! On another level, I refuse to believe that the person is getting irked or snoring. I say, “This isn’t happening!” and I keep on talking because to believe it is an insult.

One thing is that in most places, if you talk about anything requiring over say a 100 IQ, almost everyone acts like you are irking or snoring them. That pisses me off too. My IQ already unfortunately makes it seem like I’m living in a world full of retards, but being banned from saying anything intelligent in public really gets on my fuckin nerves. I do have to go out sometimes, you know.

Stupid Site

PUA Hate.

The site is all chicks, run by chicks, and nothing but hate for the Game and PUA community.

There’s nothing wrong with showing how these PUA/Game guys might be wrong, but it’s definitely the case that some guys do better than others when it comes to women. It makes sense to try to figure out what these guys are doing right and tell the guys who are not doing well what they are doing wrong.

These dumb cunts’ attitude is that PUA and Game is wrong, it’s lies, crap, nonsense and ripoff. What are guys supposed to do instead to get women? Let’s ask the cunts on this site:

Not rely on any of this stuff. Use common sense. “Be confident.” “Be yourself.”

All the usual crap advice females give to guys to get women that never works.

There are guys posting there who were involved in the community, and they post their stories. The bitches rip all over them, calling them tools, losers, chumps, dorks, guys no woman would ever want, on and on.

The bitches rant on and on that most of of the guys at PUA seminars have Aspergers’. I doubt if that’s true, but what if it was? Aspies are born that way, and there’s not much cure for it. What’s these cunts’ argument? That Aspies are all loser tools and deserve to be celibate for the rest of their lives?

I am trying to understand why these bitches are so furious at PUA and Game stuff. A lot of guys, for whatever reason, don’t have any women in their lives. They aren’t getting any. They’re lonely. A lot of guys are socially retarded. It follows that these guys could use some advice. Is all PUA/Game advice crap? That’s really dubious.

I’m still trying to figure out what these lame cunts’ problem is. Someone help me out.

More on Jack McClelland

Regarding the Witch Trials/Lynch Mobs in Modern America post, a commenter comments:

That guy is getting what he deserved. First off, adults having sex with children is the greatest existing taboo in our culture. This guy isn’t on stage saying he likes to look at girls that are 17 and a half. He admits too looking at girls down to age 3. You don’t have any kids I infer so perhaps you just can’t relate to the rage of all the people in that audience. If you did, maybe you’d feel differently.

I do happen to believe there’s probably a genetic component to pedophilia. Just like some people are born with genetics or psychological trauma that lead to homosexuality*, some people may have had the wiring go bad in their sexual attraction mechanism and their triggers of female attractiveness (such as large breast and .7 hip to waist ratio) are screwed up. In that case, they clearly aren’t to blame for their attraction anymore than someone born gay is to blame for being attracted to the same sex. If that’s what he is so be it. If that’s all it was, then I could almost feel sorry for him. However, when he goes putting up websites encouraging such behavior, that’s when he crosses the line and is encouraging people to get sexual pleasure by looking at pre-pubescent kids. And nobody forced him to go on that show. For the life of me I can’t understand why someone would even openly admit such a thing on TV.

Another interesting thing is just how disheveled and out of it that guy looks. Everything from his hair, to his clothes, to his posture and speech shows an extreme Omega male that is socially inept in every way. He may even be a candidate for Asperger’s syndrome. One of the symptoms of Asperger’s is unusual sensitivity to light, sound and other stimuli. That may have to do with why he was complaining about the stage lights and wearing sunglasses. I doubt it had to do with shame and hiding behind glasses as he wouldn’t have gone on the show in the first place if he was that ashamed.

First of all, the commenter believes that just because our culture has an insane, puritanical, Victorian and anti-sexual taboo about something sex-related, that somehow it deserves our respect. I’m sick and tired of puritanical, anti-sexual BS. We get enough of that day and day out as it is. There’s no reason that just because society has a lunatic hangup, the rest of us have climb on the board the Idiot Ship since everyone else is.

It’s hard to say. If I had a daughter, I might even let him take pics of her, if that’s all he wants to do, provided he doesn’t put them on the web. He could look at pics of my daughter and jerk off all he wants to for all I care, assuming that’s all he’s going to do.

The problem is that condemning this guy for liking to look at girls is like condemning you and me for liking to look at females 16+. It’s like condemning gay men for liking to look at males 16+. The behavior is normal for the individual. Of course straight men like to look at women. Of course gay men like to look at men. Of course pedos like to look at kids. Why should he be condemned for looking at kids? Why don’t we beat up guys who ogle women or beat up gays who check out guys in West Hollywood instead?

The rage of the parents is senseless. The guy hasn’t molested anyone. All he’s doing is looking at girls. Big deal! Are the girls going to be traumatized for life by some guy looking at them? Get real.

I’ve been studying this issue for almost 20 years now. It’s so clear to me that whatever the cause of it, these guys simply can’t help it. There’s no cure for pure pedophilia. I’m not so sure about the types who also have a decent attraction to adults. There’s also a group of nonprefentials who have no preference for kids. They can control their behavior, and there’s no reason for them to do what they do.

I actually did not feel that the guy was socially inept at all. Considering the extreme abuse he was experiencing, he showed little amazingly little anxiety and seemed to handle himself very well. I was surprised at how normal he came off.

He does have extreme sensitivity to light, sound and other sensations so he may be Aspie, but he seems awful normal for an Aspie.

The fact that this guy has come out is a good thing. More of them should be encouraged to do so. The guys who are out like this are the last ones who are going to do anything with a kid.

Your attack on his website is peculiar. You say he is “encouraging people to get off looking at little girls.” But honestly, the only people going to that site are going to be pedos anyway, right? Why would a non-pedo go to the site? Het pedos don’t need any encouragement to get pleasure by looking at girls. They already get that pleasure. So he’s not encouraging anything that’s not already there.

There may be other reasons the site is problematic, but I can’t think of any offhand.

A Brief Look at the Personality Disorders

Repost from the old site.

Commenter Stopped Clock notes:

People with BPD diagnoses or BPD-like traits are, in my experience, likely to be victims of severe child abuse, and so I find it very hard not to be sympathetic with them.

I feel the same sympathy towards people with obvious Asperger’s Syndrome traits that I’ve met throughout my school years (I was in special ed when I was young, but I’ve seen students even in college who fit the classic AS profile perfectly) and in some jobs.

I used to try to befriend them, but I’ve met some Asperger’s adults who desperately want to make friends but can’t hold a two-way conversation even with trained therapists, and it makes me feel sad to know that such people exist.

I’m sympathetic towards Aspies, although they are probably very difficult to get along with. I think I knew one once, but he was a real asshole! He was cold and rude, like a machine. He wasn’t very nice at all and there was no way whatsoever to connect with him. But could he help it?

The problem with BPD is it is one of those mental illnesses that turns you into a totally, 100%, fucked in the head asshole! I mean, they are not nice people at all.

My friend said the Borderlines start fights in every group session she was in with them, and they destroyed every session, forcing it to end early.

Sooner or later, one or more of the Borderlines would be screaming at yelling at the top of their lungs, out of their chairs, threatening to hit people, throwing shit.

My friend befriended one, and the Borderline latched onto her like a lamprey and would not let go. They would go out to eat and the Borderline would ask if they could “Bring the kids.” That meant invite her fake “alters.” Those were her fake other personalities. They love their stupid alters, and they are snide about us poor souls with only one personality – we are “singletons”, they sneer.

This Borderline would suddenly lurch into various fake personalities with no warning.

At a nice restaurant, she broke out dolls, put them on the table, and brought a coloring book and sat there and colored the whole time and talked like a little girl. After a while of this BS, my friend was like, “Fuck you!” and tried to run her out of her life. Then the Borderline was calling my friend all the time in the middle of the night until my friend had to change her phone number.

This is all pretty typical behavior.

They’re lousy friends, totally self-absorbed and fucked-up, who fall into a totally “insanely needy but I hate your guts” thing with every relationship they get into. They’re so crazy to have in therapy that there are therapists out there who refuse to have anything to do with them.

It’s true a lot of them have been abused, but in a lot of cases, it seems like they just made up the abuse for some stupid reason. 85% of Borderlines are female, and male Borderlines tend to be gay or bi.

But some say that BPD in the male is simply diagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

If you have an NPD anywhere near your life also, I would advise you to run them out of your life or restrict contact with them. I know an NPD very well, but I have little to do with this person. They have caused a lot of damage to me in life, and when I’m around them, they try to cause more damage. I’m not buying whatever shit these people are selling. NPD‘s are six years old for their whole lives.

I need to do a longer post on NPD since I know so much about it having been around NPD‘s for years, but I need to be careful because people I know might get upset.

Frankly, if you don’t have a personality disorder yourself, I would advise you or anyone like you to avoid the PD’s. The PD’s are some of the worst mental illnesses of all because they make a person abrasive, self-centered and very difficult to get along with. A non-fucked up personality (which I’m proudly repeatedly dx’d with) is something to be cherished and maintained for life.

Mood, anxiety and even psychotic disorders (Axis 1) can often be treated. It’s like getting a cold or the flu. People with Axis 1 stuff are like a basically healthy person who has temporarily acquired an illness of some sort, but at their core level (the personality) they are often very healthy.

That’s the way I like to think of myself. Sure I have an Axis 1 anxiety disorder (OCD) but I really hate it, can’t really help it, and will do anything to get rid of it. I spend a good part of my time getting outside of it enough so I can function and get along with others.

It’s perfectly possible to some nasty Axis 1 stuff on top of a more or less healthy inner core. It’s also possible to have an Axis 2 illness in your inner core but not have any overt Axis 1 symptoms due to it, though in time, lifelong personality disorders tend to lead to depression and often hypochondriasis in middle to old age. They can also cause anxiety and sometimes brief psychosis.

More often, they ruin your life and thrash the lives of just about everyone with the misfortune of getting close to you, while causing you to blame everyone else (the world, this person, that person) for all your troubles.

That’s an essential feature. In the PD’s, the problem is always other people, never in the PD person themselves.

Understand a PD always comes from a kid. It comes from your childhood – that’s where it develops – and it flowers in adolescence.

Personality change in adulthood is not PD and is probably due to other factors, maybe Axis 1 stuff. Axis 1 illnesses can distort one’s true personality and create a fake new “personality” that’s really just the Axis 1 illness itself. Remove the Axis 1 problem, and “the old you” ought to come right back.

Keep in mind that personality itself is more or less cemented by late adolescence.

Therefore, the treatment goal with a personality disorder not to create a whole new personality. You can’t create a whole new personality because you can’t stop being yourself – you’re always YOU for the rest of your life.

All PD’s are just pathological styles that have mirrors in healthy styles. For instance, the pathological Antisocial or Sociopathic Personality has a mirror called Aggressive Personality (not optimal, but valued in modern capitalist America, especially in males).

The pathological Dependent Personality has a healthy mirror called Devoted Personality.

All of the healthy mirrors probably have some drawbacks, but keep in mind that healthy personality and PD exist on a continuum. I doubt if truly healthy personalities really exist. If you went through 20,000 Americans, you might find one healthy person. So really non-PD’s are just healthier and less disordered than PD’s, who are less healthy and more disordered.

Having a personality disorder is like having a genetic condition that is hard to treat. When you have a cold or the flu, you can often comfort yourself knowing that you are basically healthy deep inside.

Not so with a PD. The essential self is damaged. Worse, the person is blinded to that fact, blames every one else, sees nothing wrong with themselves, sees no need for treatment unless forced into it and then tends to drop out or deliberately fail when shoved into therapy.

PD’s are bad news!

Weirdest Book Ever Written

Voynich Manuscript, hands down. Also one of the world’s great mysteries. Nothing about this book seems to make any sense at all, not the bizarre, undeciphered language, code, or cipher, not the weird drawings of plants that don’t exist, not the astronomy based on no known astrological system, not the cosmology based on no cosmological system ever encountered, nothing.

The date it was written is thought to be around 1500, but the author or authors are unknown, and the subject of much speculation. None of the theories really completely add up or make sense. It’s just one gigantic, endless pile of weirdness, the solution to which went to its grave with the author(s).

You can download the whole book in pdf here. I haven’t bothered, but some of you arcana buffs may wish to give it a whirl.

Runner’s up? Marienbad, My Love (2008). Go ahead, read it! It’s only 30,000 pages long.

Tired of Hemingway’s short, clipped, sentences? Have no fear. A 2,000 page single sentence in this book will cure of that forever and make you come running back to Hem or Bukowski.

One of the things we love about English are the lack of those annoying monosyllabic words that the Asian languages have. Our words can be quite long. For instance, this book has a single word that is 750 pages long. You can live, die, get resurrected and still never make it to the next word. Talk about leaving you hanging on every word.

Even weirder is The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion (1973), 15,500 pages illustrated by several hundred pages of drawings and paintings, produced by the super-weird author Henry Darger. Want to read it? Too bad. It’s never been published. He didn’t dash it off like these supermarket novel authors. On the contrary, the book took him a mere 60 years to complete.

I am convinced that Darger did not have schizophrenia, as is often speculated. Darger’s is a good example of “outsider art.” I think outsider art is really cool, but then I’m pretty damn weird myself.

Outsider music is pretty boss, too. I prefer The Shaggs, Captain Beefheart, The Residents, Syd Barrett and Roky Erikson. Forget Wild Man Fischer. Fischer, Barrett and Erikson all clearly suffer from schizophrenia. Their best work was produced in the early stages of the illness, as one might expect.

Erikson was a leader of the great pyschedelic band, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators. Check out Roky Erikson and the Aliens, The Evil One, a cult classic album from 1981, recorded when he was very mentally ill. It’s great stuff, man!