Happy Birthday, Hans!
Today is the hundredth anniversary of the birthday of Dr. Hans Asperger, pediatric psychiatrist and first descriptor of his eponymous syndrome. I believe he had some success at keeping weird kids off of the short bus, at a time and place when the short buses had one of the earliest forms of emission control. (Exhaust Gas Recirculation)
He also had to do some time in the Wehrmacht, toward the end of the Second World War; that may admit him to Fiddler's Green. Y'all will recognize him; he's the one who absolutely will not shut up about Grillparzer. ;-)
He also had to do some time in the Wehrmacht, toward the end of the Second World War; that may admit him to Fiddler's Green. Y'all will recognize him; he's the one who absolutely will not shut up about Grillparzer. ;-)
posted by Justthisguy at 2/18/2006 11:04:00 PM
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Yessir, but I dint know if the good Doc was an artilleryman or not, and if that counted or not. The authorities seem to differ.
People of that era lived such a different life. They had choices thrust upon them that we, luckily, have never had to face. The Great Depression, WWII. Tough things to live through.
Take the lawyer that Cheney just blasted in the face. He had a shotgun pellet lodged in his heart, which gave him a heart attack, and like two days later he's back at work. Tough.
Where I grew up you still meet these kinds of people. I went visiting loggers with my dad one time and this one fellow was working while covered in blood and hand his thumb taped up with black electrical tape - from sticking a screwdriver through it. He figured he's get it taken care of after the sun went down.
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