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Brush with Oswald lingers for local man

Albany Times Union

By Paul Grondahl

Updated 4:23 pm, Thursday, November 21, 2013

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Brush-with-Oswald-lingers-for-local-man-4997692.php?cmpid=fb-desktop

Rotman showed Oswald around the newsroom, and the slight man with a faint Texas accent acted oddly. "He spoke in a kind of robotic tone and spouted Marxist doctrine like he had just read it in a book. He was strange and stilted,"

Classic Aspergers Syndrome

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Brush with Oswald lingers for local man

Albany Times Union

By Paul Grondahl

Updated 4:23 pm, Thursday, November 21, 2013

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Brush-with-Oswald-lingers-for-local-man-4997692.php?cmpid=fb-desktop

Rotman showed Oswald around the newsroom, and the slight man with a faint Texas accent acted oddly. "He spoke in a kind of robotic tone and spouted Marxist doctrine like he had just read it in a book. He was strange and stilted,"

Classic Aspergers Syndrome

Behaviors vary from limited or inappropriate social interaction, robotic or repetitive speech, and challenges with nonverbal communication.

http://www.waaytv.com/appnews/understanding-asperger-s-syndrome-high-functioning-autism/article_479696d6-4c4a-11e5-9fbc-8f7cad5c3dbc.html

Children with Asperger syndrome have fewer problems with language than those with autism, often speaking fluently, though their words can sometimes sound formal or stilted. People with Asperger syndrome do not usually have an accompanying learning disability. They are often of average or above average intelligence, although some may have an accompanying specific learning difficulty.

http://www.autism.org.uk/working-with/education/teaching-young-children.aspx

From Lilian Murret's testimony: "he was very polite and refined.” Or put another way, HE SOMETIMES SOUNDED FORMAL...

Edited by Greg Parker
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Brush with Oswald lingers for local man

Albany Times Union

By Paul Grondahl

Updated 4:23 pm, Thursday, November 21, 2013

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Brush-with-Oswald-lingers-for-local-man-4997692.php?cmpid=fb-desktop

Rotman showed Oswald around the newsroom, and the slight man with a faint Texas accent acted oddly. "He spoke in a kind of robotic tone and spouted Marxist doctrine like he had just read it in a book. He was strange and stilted,"

Classic Aspergers Syndrome

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From Lilian Murret's testimony: "he was very polite and refined.” Or put another way, HE SOMETIMES SOUNDED FORMAL...

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As in classic Asperger Syndrome.

Excellent point, Greg!

--Tommy :sun

Edited by Thomas Graves
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