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Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 19:40:25 CST

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Forwarded by: h3mlock <h3mlockbasementresearch.net>

There is actually some fairly interesting work that has been done related to
the link between autism/ADHD and the type of thinking that makes hackers and
other engineering types excel.

http://www.reciprocality.org/

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Thus spake InfoSec News (isnC4I.ORG):

> http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010329/3186534s.htm
>
> [I can see it now, The researchers will be attending hacker
> conventions following this possibility further. - WK]
>
> By M.J. Zuckerman
> USA TODAY
>
> Temple Grandin recalls the sense of recognition she felt when she
> saw notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick being interviewed on
> 60 Minutes about a year ago.
>
> Casual viewers may have noticed Mitnick's mannerisms -- a twitchy
> lack of poise, inability to look people in the eye, stunted
> formality in diction and obsessive interest in technology -- but
> Grandin saw something else: possible signs of Asperger syndrome,
> or AS.
>
> Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University
> and an internationally respected authority on the meat industry,
> is perhaps the world's best-known sufferer of AS. She recognized
> those traits and others exhibited by Mitnick as typical of the
> syndrome, a recently identified disorder closely associated with
> autism.
>
> Grandin, Mitnick and several leading medical researchers say there
> is sufficient evidence to ask: Could AS be an indicator of
> children at risk of drifting into computer hacking?

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