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Man, it's bad enough all the gringos wanted to learn Salsa last year and Tango this year. Now they are going to bring their kids? ;) On a serious note: isn't d
by aristus 16y ago
Man, it's bad enough all the gringos wanted to learn Salsa last year and Tango this year. Now they are going to bring their kids? ;)
On a serious note: isn't diagnosis something that varies across the attitudes of the doctors? A psychologist friend from Venezuela thinks that Asperger's is a load of bunk, for example.
- jacquesm 16y agoInteresting, has he done research to verify his hypothesis? If he manages to prove that he'll be hero of a lot of parents whose kids are 'labeled'.
- aristus 16y agoI don't think so; it's just a different tradition of thought. You can be different without having a medical condition. I and I'm sure you have worked with people who could run a nuclear reactor and seem to function OK, but can't manage eye contact. Another example: she holds great respect for Freud but I gather he is not taken seriously anymore in the States.
- jacquesm 16y agoHehe, really funny comment, just re-reading the first bit: I was at a party new years eve 2008 in Panama, there were a whole lot of people and I sort of hung around because I didn't know many people there. Two Panamian girls that were sitting around were having the time of their life commenting on how funny the 'gringos' danced, I didn't realize how right they were until they started to dance. The 'gringos' were dancing from their shoulders and knees with their bodies mostly rigid, the Panamian girls were dancing with their whole bodies. It was quite an eye opener.