Delicious is something I looked at but can't say I really understand. I didn't make a membership or add anything but I did search "Aspergers" and got some interesting articles, blogs and web forums to investigate.
Learned that Silicon Valley may have the highest rate of children with autism spectrum disporders in the world and that these disorders maybe more closely linked with a child's fathers age and genetic constitution than his/her mother's. The speculation is that programming, IT and engineering attract a population, both male and female, that value many of the characterists of Autism spectrum disorders, for example, intense focus, interest in small but deep subjects, adeptness with math and science and limited social needs. Thus children are born with too much of the good thing that made their parents so successful. Weird.
I don't really see my brother in that, dispite him being an engineer. Well, I have to admit he is VERY focused. I also found out that "aspies" call the rest of us NTs (neurotypicals).
YAY! Librarything is the one thing I already had in place when this all started! I guess I'm only going to get 26 things....
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