kerriefitz
Registered: 02/17/04
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Reply with quote | #16 |
First let me apologize for jumping on your alum board as I am not an alum but highly interested in this topic. Found this topic on google search.
I studied Speech Therapy in school and have a brother-in-law with AS (FIL is an engineer). As well, I have friends who have an AS child and both are engineers. Additionally, I noted this past weekend that a friend/cousin of hubby, grad of Cal Poly, is an engineer and married to an engineer and have two sons that are ADHD (daughter seems normal enough so far). I thought that perhaps there is some correlation between engineering parents and these disorders (I also thought it interesting that John F. Nash's father was also an engineer though his illness is not AS).
I do not, at all, believe that AS is particular to MIT alum as much as just plain engineering types. I also find in my own family with a bunch of mechanical engineers a wide spread array of various learning disorders (brother w/Dysgraphia, two Dyslexic cousins on paternal side and a few others not to mention the predominate lefthandedness someone mentioned).
Just my two cents, I think you're short changing the AS society by only viewing this as an MIT alum issue vs an overall engineering progeny issue.
Best wishes.
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