Is there an app for that?

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My 13-year-old fact-quoting Asperger's egghead has found an app called Cool Facts.
Which is just that: an unending collecting of cool facts.
Its the last things he needs. He is already a storehouse of arcane trivia, a Jeopardy champ in the making.
With the iPod Touch in his hand, he never shuts up.
What he needs - what all kids with Asperger's need - is as an app to guide them through reciprocal conversation.
Is there an app for that?
There's certainly a market.

No defense

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Asperger's Syndrome does not make someone a murderer.

So a big fat razzberry to Twin Cities attorney Alan Margoles who claims his client Michael John Anderson committed murder because he has Asperger's. People with Asperger's are characterized by many traits, including, as the Star Tribune relates, "clumsiness and eccentric speech and behavior". But murder? That's not in the DSM.

So Margoles, thanks for sending our efforts for understanding back to the dark ages; for tagging everyone with AS as a potential killer; for undoing all the work we've done to build acceptance for AS kids. The neighbors will never be comfortable now. Our kids will never get jobs.

I don't know why Anderson committed murder. Maybe because he was male. Or Christian. Left handed or a Taurus. But please. Not because he has Asperger's.