FACEBOOK AND MARK ZUCKERBERG...

For those of us who have been trained to spot a combination of features that frequently spell
Asperger's enjoy the TV show, The Big Bang Theory.  Sheldon is a stereotypical example of the brilliant, compulsive, socially inept person who lacks typical emotional responses to cues others read differently.

Today I saw the movie The Social Network.  I was told the movie is not true to the actual Facebook and its inception and inventors.  However, Hollywood portrayed Mark Zuckerberg as classic Asperger's..

The difficulty in understanding and acknowledging autism, primarily high functioning autism or Asperger�s Syndrome, by the medical, psychological, and psychiatric community, can lead to misdiagnosis and even failure to provide the services needed for students (Autism Today, 2007).

In 2007, Michelle Fattig wrote  "

People with Asperger's Syndrome are often described, as having social skills deficits, reluctance to listen, difficulty understanding social give and take, and other core characteristics, is typically quite misunderstood and/or misdiagnosed in our country today.

Wikipedia describes Facebook and some history.  For some direct follow-up from Mark Zuckerberg, the 26 year old youngest billionaire, click here.

Regardless of how Mr. Zuckerberg may be clinically diagnosed, he is clearly one of those rare, brilliant, creative people who has proven he has carefully thought out a concept of social networking that no others had thought to shape and develop as he did.  By the way, none of the write-ups of Zuckerberg contain anything about Sean Parker (Napster) in facilitating the birth through adolescence of Facebook as pictured in the movie nor did Zuckerberg comment on him in anything available to me to read.

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