Re: Support RMS

[Aaron Wolf]

Thanks Luke, that's well said, and that's how I see things as well.

Except for the one detail that I'm not sure how much the people who have
been close to RMS are actually unaware. I suspect they see it clearly
too and that's one reason many of them spent years tolerating things and
working to help him. Perhaps if he were indeed diagnosed and had help
from people who understand his particular neurological style that would
make the difference. The various free software activists who have worked
with RMS are not specifically experts on Asperger's or similar, so even
if they *get* that he is that way, that doesn't mean they know how to
deal with it.

On 2021-03-26 10:58 p.m., Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>    On Saturday, March 27, 2021,
>    <[1]libreplanet-discuss-request@libreplanet.org> wrote:
> 
>      and I'm not talking about the
>      unfair out-of-context gotcha stuff, I'm talking about the pattern of
>      awkward behavior the is both more subtle and persistent, the stuff
>      that
>      has discouraged many people over the years, people who dealt with
>      him
>      day-to-day.
> 
>    i have interacted with Dr Stallman for over 15 years.  over that time
>    several things became abundantly clear to me:
> 
>    1) his hyperintelligence and attention to detail leaves you with
>    absolutely no opportunity whatsoever to be ambiguous or unclear, in any
>    way.  everyday words or acronyms that provide any opportunity for
>    misunderatanding he will INSTANTLY pick up on and question.
> 
>    for people who lack patience this drives them up the f****** wall.
> 
>    for those who have the patience it is an opportunity that i cannot
>    fully express how valuable it is, to have access to someone who can
>    teach you to be absolutely clear and succinct in communication.
> 
>    2) from the above, and much more, it is blindingly obvious that Dr
>    Stallman has a form of Asperger's (just as i do).
> 
>    the problem is that every time i raise this with him, he denies it.
> 
>    i would very much appreciate it if others who recognise the clear
>    symptoms and behavioural patterns that i do, to have a quiet word with
>    him and advise him to get a proper independent diagnosis...
> 
>    ...,*and publish it*.
> 
>    someone from a professional background who confirms this independently
>    will have a huge impact in silencing and stymying Dr Stallman's worst
>    critics.
> 
>    how?
> 
>    because his critics and those actively seeking to destroy him are
>    judging him by "normal" behavioural standards.
> 
>    no "normal" person literally dedicates their entire life in the way
>    that he has to a cause that invites others to go absolutely ballistic
>    because they look so ethically inferior to him by comparison, they
>    cannot cope and seek to destroy him rather than accept *themselves* as
>    they are.
> 
>    we accept Bill Gates and Richard Branson for who they are.  they both
>    have Asperger's.  these are people whose behavioural quirks and speech
>    patterns are accepted because they have been diagnosed with Asperger's
>    and that has become public knowledge.
> 
>    people with Asperger's are the ones that change rhe world, because they
>    DO NOT QUIT.
> 
>    i leave you with this quote:
> 
>    The Reason-able Man adapts himself to the world.
> 
>    The Un-Reason-able Man adapts the world to himself.
> 
>    Therefore, all progress depends on the Un-Reason-able Man.
> 
>    l.
> 
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> References
> 
>    1. mailto:libreplanet-discuss-request@libreplanet.org
>    2. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
> 
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