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Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.23 17:28:00 - [1] Quote: Neighbour Vera Petrovna said: ?I was once in his flat and I was astounded. He only has a table, a stool and a bed with a dirty mattress which was left by previous owners - alcoholics who sold the flat to him.?We are trying to get rid of **roaches in our block, but they hide in his flat.? Sounds like he has some form of aspergers that is getting worse that is killing off his social tendencies for extreme focus on mathmatics. Get than man some treatment stat! Originally by:** CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.
Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.23 17:48:00 - [2] @Grimpak. Apergers can come in many forms that can 'worsen' over time in that it changes how you view and relate to the world around you as you slide deeper and deeper into whatever singular purpose drives you. So as his mathmatical focus increased his social functions decreased to the point he was unable to relate and so 'loses his faith' in the process. Also aspergers is not a bad thing to have as some of the most creative people in the history of man have been diagnosed as having aspergers. That it is bandied about as a deragatory term here in eve is due to the copius amount of 'juvenile arsehat syndrome' that plauges the forums. Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.
Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.23 19:01:00 - [3] Edited by: Zeba on 23/03/2010 19:02:45 Originally by: Grimpak hmmm... well that is a point of view. indeed the man mighty suffer from Aspergers. To be fair it might be some other mental health issue but one thing is for certain: You don't go from noted mathmatical proffessor to self imposed hermit who lost his faith in society over something small. That his colleages were baffled at what has caused his sudden withdrawal to his current condition is what reminded me of the classic aspergers symptoms. When he was focusing on that problem his brain was actively rewriting over other portions of his brain normally reserved for other functions so it could continue to function on the problem at hand. But once rewritten those areas need to be similarly stimulated to be back to the old functions. Hence the 'worsening' condition in rare cases. Tbh aspergers syndrome is a fascinating study that is getting more and more attention now that they can do active maps of your brain activity when doing tasks. If you like to know how genius works I highly reccomend reading up on it in detail. Hell one scientist using all the new data on aspergers has figured out a way to use magnetic induction to 'switch off' portions of a brain for a short duration and let other areas use the freed up 'bandwith' to make leaps of intelligence in a normal person at the cost of other things like physical reaction time. This was basically letting them perform tasks for a few minutes like counting exactly how many dots are on a page that was shown to them for a fraction of a second or even quickly performing complex maths in their head that took them severak mintutes with a pen and paper before. However in these cases the 'overwritten' parts of the brain quickly recover their old functions unlike the aspergers cases. edit, sorry about wall of text but my ps3 browser refuses to recognize page breaks.. Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.
Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.23 19:33:00 - [4] Originally by: Omgah I sick of people claiming assburgers as the source of all their social woes. I like losers that just accept being a loser rather then blaming a medical condition that they don't have. Wat? Noone here is claiming to have aspergers. Its simply an option in his case due to the circumstances and bits of his social life that were given. Looks like we might have a case of juvenile arsehat syndrome in the thread now though. Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.
Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.24 03:18:00 - [5] I simply called aspergers because it fits the limited info available from the op's link. Like siig said someone with aspergers can function normally for years until the situation arises that puts them into overload which by all accounts is what happed to the poor guy. To the others in the thread having aspergers is nothing to worry about in the vast majority of cases as its simply another common disorder that sometimes manifests itself in seemingly negative ways with the lack of social functions that 'normal' people can't seem to be sympathetic enough to work around. As far as the scientist with the magnetic induction experiment I saw it on a discovery channel show about autism and aspergers. Yeah yeah I know to take that stuff with a grain of salt but it seemed quite believeable as I'm not exactly a noob where human behavior study is concerned. I'll see if I can track down the show and get the name of the scientist for the pooh poohers in the crowd. Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.
Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.25 17:50:00 - [6] Originally by: Sidus Isaacs Some math guy said no to money, then (almost) everybody lables him with some mental disorder like its the natural thing to do with thoose who do not want money and like a simple house. Refusing the prize and then going on to live a simple life in a simple home is one thing and if that was what happened then you would be correct. However the man went rapidly from a socialy oriented noted mathamatician to a reclusive hermit living in a ***roach infested house formerly owned by alcoholics with only a table, stool and dirty mattress the previous owners left which I am quite certain is covered with priss and fecal matter stains as the sole furniture. If you seriously think that is a normal rational thing to do then I hope to god you never ever are in a position to have to diagnose and eventualy help a person in a situation like that. Something* massively traumatic happened to him be it a worsening undiagnosed mental 'disorder' or some other trigger. Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.
Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.26 17:05:00 - [7] Jebus all I said is that from the limited info it looks like the guy is suffering from some sort of mental breakdown. That I named aspergers instead of using the generic mental illness tag is my right to do in a discussion forum where you post your opinions. And that report wasn't sensational at all. It was simply conveying the story is as few words as possible due to the writer not having limitless space to do a full background investigation story. That will come later from someone else if the story catches enough interest. I think the majority of denial that the man might be sick comes from all the negative connotations that mental illness has accrued over the years. The truth is that mental illness is except in rare cases is mostly benign for the vast majority of those who are afflicted with whatever it is they have. Hell I would say that people with mental disorders have done moar for the common normal man than any other group of people in the history of the world if all these post mortem diagnosis on the movers and shakers of the past are true. Some might even say that 'normal' people which by the way is the baseline for judging whether a person has a mental 'disorder' are the ones who are the really sick ones with their sheepish ways and tendency to totaly ignore reality. Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.
Zeba Minmatar Honourable East India Trading Company	Posted - 2010.03.27 05:19:00 - [8] Whatever dude. I call em as I see em. That you disagree is totally within your rights as I have already had my say and don't feel like feeding the trolls anymoar, Bottom line is the man went from top of the world to reclusive hermit living in squalor. No rational person with a healthy mental disposition will ever do that so have fun with the rest of the thread. Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Get off the forums and go kill someone! CCP Shadow's Troll List.

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