The Story of Two Buses

gamby wrote: The links were used for proof. I don't memorize their names. So the girl wasn't autistic and she's pretty awkward, too.

Rebecca Sealfon has been a graduate researcher at Columbia University where she wrote a DNA sequencing algorithm. She studied at Duke, Princeton, and Mt Sinai. She is the CEO and founder of an organization that matches researches to professors.

How does a YouTube video of her awkwardness under stress while the adrenaline is still pumping prove anything about her "inability function in society"?

You are mistaken. Your points are pointless, because they only emphasize your bias.

No, I'll give that extremely intelligent people can get very socially awkward. My brother is one (more of the product of being socialized in a largely male engineering field) and I teach with some. I was actually just discussing that very phenomenon (super smart, socially awkward) with another teacher last week.

Get a room, you two.

bastomatic wrote: Get a room, you two.

I'm done.

gamby wrote:

bastomatic wrote: Get a room, you two.

I'm done.

Do you need a cigarette?

gamby wrote: Didn't know he was autistic. The spelling bee stands out to me because so many homeschooled kids win it and so many of them are strange. I don't memorize their names because I'm not a huge fan of the spelling bee. all I know is, a lot of these kids wind up in comedy clip shows and it's their awkwardness that makes them stand out.

Alternative is that these people are not awkward because they are home schooled, but are home schooled because they're awkward. When I taught at a private school we tended to get a lot of those kids who were 1-2 standard deviations away from normal on both sides of the bell curve. Kids who would not quite fit right with a standardized curriculum in a public school, but were not so severely different that they could be moved into special ed or bumped up a full grade. So we got a number of kids who were a bit ADHD or on the edge of the autistic or aspberghers scale. These kids were noticeably... different... in how they processed information.

No spelling bee winners, but our tiny Montessori school brought home more awards from the CA state Science Fair than any other junior high in the state one year.