A new strategy for coping.

I have decided to embrace late onset Asperger's Syndrome. This will be my excuse for not politely suffering the blathering of the morons among us. I hesitate to use the word moron, since it has a precise clinical definition; that of a certain level of mental retardation. The problem is that "willfully ignorant and uncritically thinking people" just isn't pejorative enough for me. It's too polite. Late onset Asperger's is characterized by: inappropriate meticulousness, grumpiness (caused by the morons among us), normal to superior linguistic and cognitive development (having a vocabulary greater than 1000 words [AKA; atypical use of language]) rational and logical thinking, and general brilliance of mind and focus on the issues at hand (as opposed to being confused by irrelavancies and non sequitors). Tautological arguments and circular reasoning (not to mention unsupportable a priori assumptions are not allowed by the Aspergerer.

That's me. I don't know where everybody else is. One look at planet earth and it becomes obvious that the afore mentioned traits are not at all common.

There are several other "late onsets" that will become useful to me as I age. Immaturity, extreme bluntness in conversation, and pretended refusal to understand the words of others, but I'm sure that there will be many others as well. It will become a trend:

There are likely to be hundreds, if not thousands of "late onset" syndromes appearing in the population in the near future. Years ago, psychologists subjected rats to over crowding. The experiments showed that extreme crowding resulted in a suite of abnormal behaviors, most of which might be simply characterized as "The rats all went ratshit nuts".

Planet earth is being subjected to an experiment by Homo sapiens (I prefer Homo fecundus) as the population continues to rise without consideration of any issue other than Let's all have babies! The immensely irrational belief that there can't be too many humans on Earth proves that rational thinking is in short supply indeed. (In reality it is the alternative: There can't be too many humans on Earth). I love these phrases that can mean the opposite of each other even though the words are identical. But one can't be too careful with one's use of language. And one can't be too careful with one's use of language either.