For some things, aspergers helps

I mean, it's not all grim news. We have to look on the bright side, don't we? Dazzled, we're easy work for the slaughterman.

For example, I'm a diabetic. Without fairly rigid behaviour patterns it's hard to be insulin dependent. After a few decades, there's precious few of us staving off the disabling and deadly long term effects of the disease. Aspergers helps with that.

Knowing about aspergers? Well, in part that's bad because it's a distraction. Equally, knowing about it opens the door to better understanding of - perhaps eventually even better success at - the business of life. Of course, that's a distraction too but one has to have a reason to go on trying.

And, of course, there's systems work. I'm not yet convinced that one can live normally in the people world and still get along well in the depths of information systems. All the people I've met down here are strange in one way or another.

There may be exceptions. One can only go on evidence.