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Data on Asperger Syndrome

Asperger syndrome: An autistic disorder most notable for the often great discrepancy between the intellectual and social abilities of those who have it.

Asperger syndrome is a pervasive developmental disorder that is characterized by an inability to understand how to interact socially. Typical features of the syndrome also may include clumsy and uncoordinated motor movements, social impairment with extreme egocentricity, limited interests and unusual preoccupations, repetitive routines or rituals, speech and language peculiarities, and non-verbal communication problems.

The syndrome is named for Hans Asperger who in 1944 published a paper that described a pattern of behavior in several young boys who had normal intelligence and language development but who had autistic-like behavior. Hans Asperger (1906-1980) was a pioneering pediatrician in Austria. He headed the play-pedagogic station at the university children’s clinic in Vienna in 1932 and became director of the children’s clinic in 1946. His special interest was in “psychically abnormal” children.

There is no specific course of treatment or cure for Asperger syndrome. Treatment, which is symptomatic and rehabilitation, may include both psychosocial and psycho-pharmacological interventions such as psychotherapy, parent education and training, behavioral modification, social skills training, educational interventions, and/or medications including psycho-stimulants, mood stabilizers, beta blockers, and tricycle-type antidepressants. Common misdiagnoses or multiple diagnoses for Asperger’s include: Depression, Bipolar disorder, ADHD, ODD, OCD – all adjoining to the Autistic Spectrum.

The following five criteria primarily characterize Asperger’s Disorder.
1. A significant, ongoing impairment in social interactions with others, as demonstrated by at least two of the following symptoms:

• Significant difficulty in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as the lack of eye contact, few facial expressions, awkward or clumsy body postures and gestures
• Failure to develop friendships
• Lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people (by a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people)
• Failure to express appropriate and corresponding social or emotional reactions, such as when conversing or playing with others.

2. Restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as shown by at least one of the following symptoms:

• A significant and encompassing preoccupation or obsession with one or two restricted topics, that is abnormal either in intensity, subject or focus
• Seemingly inflexible adherence to specific routines or rituals that serve little purpose
• Repetitive motor mannerisms.
• A persistent preoccupation with parts of objects

3. The set of symptoms causes significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
4. There is no significant general delay in language (e.g., single words used by age 2, communicative phrases used by age 3).
5. There is no significant delay in cognitive development (such as reading or math skills) or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, behavior, and curiosity about the environment in childhood.

This information contributed via Brittany M Dauzat

The Cheesecake Factory review

2 Years Unemployed anniversary today

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2/21/58 This day in history.

2/21/11

The symbol was designed and completed February 21, 1958 (my birthday!) The name “Generation Jones” has several connotations, including: a large anonymous generation, and a “Keeping up with the Joneses” competitiveness borne from this generation’s populous birth years. The connotation, however, which is perhaps best known stems from the slang word "jones" or “jonesing”, which means a yearning or craving. Jonesers were the people who as teens in the 1970s made this slang word popular, but beyond this historical claim, many believe the concept of jonesing is among this generation’s key collective personality traits. Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the optimistic 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age in the pessimistic 1970s, leaving them with a certain unrequited, jonesing quality.
Born in 1958: January 1 - Grandmaster Flash, African-American hip-hop/rap DJ January 4 - Matt Frewer, Canadian/American actor (Max Headroom) January 26 - Ellen DeGeneres, actress and comedian (Ellen) February 16 - Ice-T, African-American singer, songwriter, and actor (Law and Order) February 21 - Andrew Lerner, blogger. 2/21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer February 26 - Susan Helms, astronaut March 5 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (Shadow Dancing) (d. 1988) March 8 - Gary Numan, British singer (Cars) March 10 - Sharon Stone, actress (Basic Instincts) March 20 - Holly Hunter, actress March 21 - Gary Oldman, English actor (Air Force One) April 3 - Alec Baldwin, actor (30 RockApril 21 - Andie MacDowell, actress (Groundhog Day). April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer, actress May 12 - Eric Singer, rock drummer (Kiss) May 29 - Annette Bening, actress June 2 - Lex Luger, professional wrestler June 7 - Prince, African-American musician June 8 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, African-American comedian, actor, and director (In Living Color) June 15 - Wade Boggs, baseball player July 8 - Kevin Bacon, actor (Apollo 13) July 20 - Billy Mays, infomercial salesperson (d. 2009) July 31 - Bill Berry, rock drummer (R.E.M.) August 16 - Madonna, American-born singer, songwriter, and actress (Material Girl) August 16 - Angela Bassett, African-American actress August 17 - Belinda Carlisle, singer (The Go-Go's) August 24 - Steve Guttenberg, actor (Police Academy) August 25 - Tim Burton, film director (Alice in Wonderland) August 29 - Michael Jackson, African-American singer and dancer (The Jackson 5) (d. 2009). September 6 - Jeff Foxworthy, comedian, actor, author (Fifth Grader?) September 6 - Michael Winslow, comedian, actor, voice actor September 22 - Joan Jett, musician October 5 - Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist (NOVA Science NOW). October 14 - Thomas Dolby (Thomas Morgan Robertson), English rock musician (She Blinded Me With Science) October 16 - Tim Robbins, actor November 22 - Jamie Lee Curtis, actress (A Fish Called Wanda) December 11 - Nikki Sixx, rock musician (Mötley Crüe) December 17 - Mike Mills, rock bassist (R.E.M.) December 31 - Bebe Neuwirth, actress (Frasier) 
Many years ago I received up to 12 birthday cards via the postal service. This year, I received one this way, 25 via FaceBook, 2 emails, one before by phone, one voice-mail, and one in person. Thank you to all of my friends that make my life worth living.
Thank you to these FB people, who are responsible for making my birthday happy: Linden Stricker Robin Matheson Dan Lerner Brittany M Dauzat Félix A. Noël Dan Homan, Chantri Waddoups, Arlynn Beyer Palmer, Nancy McKenna, Rachael Sibley, Philip Heffron, Chamier Williams, Bess Ortiz, Anna Lerner, Jennifer Jones, Darcy Galane, Dan Teixeira, Alan Lerner, Joseph Lyric Inforca Lerner, Melanie Lerner, Michael Horn, Jeff Wernick, Shari Rodway Beck, Nancy Goldfarb by voice-mail, and Catherine Parkes Latane by email. Elanor Matheson was represented in the gift card we used for dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. (please read my review of our experience)

Lerner Story 6

Lerner Story 6. What say you?

Keep money here in the U.S.A.

Sometime this year,  we taxpayers will again receive another 'Economic Stimulus' payment.
This is indeed a very exciting program,  and I'll explain it by using a Q & A format:
    Q.  What is an 'Economic Stimulus' payment?
    A.  It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
    Q. Where will the government get this money?
    A.  From taxpayers.
    Q.  So the government is giving me back my own money?
    A.  Only a smidgen of it.
    Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
    A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
    Q.  But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
    Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the U.S. economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:   
        * If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart,  the money will go to China or Sri Lanka
        * If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
        * If you purchase a computer, it will go to India , Taiwan or China
        * If you purchase fruit and vegetables,  it will go to Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala
        * If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea
        * If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan
        * If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.
    Instead, keep the money in America by:
    1)  Spending it at yard sales,  or    
    2)  Going to ball games,  or
    3)  Spending it on prostitutes,  or  
    4)  Beer or  
    5) Tattoos.
(These are the only American businesses still operating in the U.S. )
    Conclusion:
    Go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day!

Dog with cone cartoon.

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Target Shack

Target has phased out the garden centers in their stores. They are phasing in Fresh produce grocery stores. An agreement has been made with Radio Shack, who now also carries Verizon, to operate mobile phone kiosks within their stores. This will better position Target to compete with Walmart and Best Buy stores. The Bullseye stores seems to be a win-win for both companies. It also fills the void left by Circuit City, Blockbuster, and Sam's Club. They will also carry AT&T and T-Mobile. The logo to the left is clever. It incorporates The newest (radio) R-O logo without using their new moniker of "The Shack". Super Target already has such other stores as Starbucks, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Wells Fargo Bank inside their buildings. Having a shack inside for the electronics makes sense. It now has a bigger target.

Happy 1st Anniversary

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S&H discount stamps

During the 1960s, the rewards catalog printed by the company was the largest publication in the United States and the company issued three times as many stamps as the U.S. Postal Service.[1] Customers would receive stamps at the checkout counter of supermarkets, department stores, and gasoline stations among other retailers, which could be redeemed for products in the catalog. Click on green stamps for larger size, and then click again.

Gasoline

WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE.
Are you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American products? In addition, they are gouging us on oil prices.
Shouldn't we return the favor? Can't we take control of our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who REALLY generates their profits, their livings?  How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the import export deficit? An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS.  Every time you fill up your car you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of S
audi Arabia. Just purchase gas from companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.

The following gas companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell................................................205,742,000barrels 
Chevron/Texaco.............................144,332,000 barrels  
Exxon /Mobil...................................130,082,000 barrels 
Marathon/Speedway......................117,740,000 barrels   
Amoco..............................................62,231,000 barrels  
CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction!  (We pay Chavez's regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!)
The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC.  If you do the math at $100 per barrel, that's over $550 million PER DAY ($200 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!! It won't stop here - oil prices could go to $200 a barrel or higher if we keep buying their product.
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil: 

2010 Toyota RAV4

Sunoco............................0 barrels 
Conoco............................0 barrels
0ASinclair.........................0 barrels
BP / Phillips..................... 0 barrels  
Hess.................................0 barrels 
ARC0...............................0 barrels 
Maverick..........................0 barrels 
Flying J............................0 barrels  
Valero..............................0 barrels 
Murphy Oil USA*..............0 barrels  
*Sold at Kroger and Walmart: gas is from South Arkansas and fully  USA owned and produced.   
All of this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing. 

But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers  With the help of the internet, it's really simple to do.   Now, don't wimp out at this point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I'm sending this note to about thirty people.  If each of you send it to at only ten more (30 x 10 = 300)....and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)....and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!!!!!!! 

If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!  If it goes one level further, you guessed it...THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE-the entire population of the United States of America !!!! 

Again, all you have to do is cut and paste this message to 10 people. How long would that really take you?  If each of us sends this via e-mail out to ten more people, within one day all 300 MILLION people could theoretically be contacted during the next eight days

February Calendar 2011

Download and Print this 2011 calendar, for free, by clicking and saving on each picture (JPEG). I created this calendar using Adobe In-Design ON 6/2010. Click on these small pictures to show enlarged pages of this 2011 calendar. After that, you can right click to save each image, and then print it out! This 26 page calendar can be also printed out via a PDF. It can be printed on card stock or more flexible gloss paper. It is in full color. Each 11 x 8.5 inch calendar has another 11 x 8.5 inch monthly picture above it, and can be spiral bound. This can also be done by Office and print stores. Please email and let me know if you would like me to send you the PDF file copy for free, or if you would like to pay for a deluxe one. I will make no monetary profit on this. It can be used as your monthly screen background.

This publication was created and produced by Andrew I. Lerner during July 2010. It is a calender for 2011 CE, during the Jewish years 5771 - 5772. Included are 12 of his favorite Rock music groups, and his respective favorite songs. The face logo is from Nirvana. The group of 4 symbols is from the fourth album by Led Zeppelin. The “peace” sign was created, and Andrew I. Lerner was born, on 2/21/58. “day” refers to the missing suffix for the 7 listed. The calendar was created for a Seminole State College project as part of Digital Media, Graphic Design specialization. It is intended for private distribution only.

State of My Card

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Top 10 Terrific Traits of Autistic People

1. Autistic People Rarely Lie
2. People on the Autism Spectrum Live in the Moment
3. People with Autism Rarely Judge Others
4. Autistic People are Passionate
5. People with Autism Are Not Tied to Social Expectations
6. People with Autism Have Terrific Memories
7. Autistic People Are Less Materialistic
8. Autistic People Play Fewer Head Games
9. Autistic People Have Fewer Hidden Agendas
10. People with Autism Open New Doors for Neurotypicals

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New zodiac signs 2011

Up until now I have been misinformed! I always thought I was a "fish out of water"! Now I know I am the water itself! Aspies are like a "fish out of water" when it comes to the NT social culture, Aspie's are well advised to not make sales a career. This fishy phrase is an idiom of the English language. Idioms are hard to understand by Aspies, and find them to be idiotic. Under the "wrong" definition of the zodiac signs, I was considered a Pisces(♓), the fish sign. Now I learn I am really Aquarius(♒), the water sign. Therefore, is 2011 the dawning of the age of Aquarius? At least now I know why I hate fish. Now we know that, instead of 12, there are really 13 original signs. The US had 13 original colonies. Should we now change the calendar to 13 months? Can we call that month Asperger? Hans Asperger has done more to explain me than my horoscope. Maybe we should add the Zodiac sign of Aspieus. It would be between Aquarius and Pisces, and include Feb. 21.

Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16....Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11....Pisces: March 11-April 18...Aries: April 18-May 13....Taurus: May 13-June 21....Gemini: June 21-July 20....Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10....Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16....Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30....Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23....Scorpio: Nov. 23-29....Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17....Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20.

Fighting off intollerence.

I am so amazed at how much energy and happiness can be derived from Biking 10 miles, spending time with friends, and eating fresh food. Imagine how much more productive I could have been most of my life with friends, exercise, and fresh food! It has taken me half a century for me to feel safe on this planet, so I can crack the code on how to make friends, and bring down the shields, now that the artillery fire has subsided, and my Nemesis's have died or been defeated. It is safe now to discover and experience life.

During my life, my greatest friend, the video display, has provided me five of the greatest inventions ever: TV, PC, Internet, WWW, and FaceBook.