look at this 13 year old!!!!!!

[sikhawk]

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I have no idea if this is a repost or not, if it is mods please delete.

god i am so jealous of this kid. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/noah-egler-13yearold-with_n_939537.html
thought i'd share it with you guys

 

[SitraAchra]

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'd ever be jealous of a kid with aspergers who happens to be book smart.

Knowing the answers and being able to communicate effectively in a stressful team-dependent environment are two very different things.

 

[CodeBlu]

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'd ever be jealous of a kid with aspergers who happens to be book smart.

Knowing the answers and being able to communicate effectively in a stressful team-dependent environment are two very different things.

This.

 

[Dayzie]

I'm jealous of the opportunity, for sure. Not so much of the rest of his situation, though it seems like his parents are just fantastic.

 

[deleted393595]

I have no idea if this is a repost or not, if it is mods please delete.

god i am so jealous of this kid. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/noah-egler-13yearold-with_n_939537.html
thought i'd share it with you guys

"good-natured boy who was diagnosed when young with Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that Noah talks about freely."

No thanks. I wish the best for him, but I do not envy his position nor his condition.

 

[ponyo]

I have no idea if this is a repost or not, if it is mods please delete.

god i am so jealous of this kid. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/noah-egler-13yearold-with_n_939537.html
thought i'd share it with you guys

I've worked with plenty of kids with Asperger's before and this kid doesn't actually sound like he has it. He seems far too socially aware and circumscribed interest alone (which his might not even qualify, since the article implies he's interested in a variety of different things) shouldn't merit a full diagnosis. Seems like a misplaced label followed by a lot of parental reinforcement...

Of course I'm just an undergrad so what do I know 😛

 

[NickNaylor]

Look at the avatar...

 

[FloridaMedicine]

look at the avatar...

+1

lol

 

[DrBowtie]

Sadly, he might not make it out of Gary, IN alive.

 

[Gigantron]

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'd ever be jealous of a kid with aspergers who happens to be book smart.

Knowing the answers and being able to communicate effectively in a stressful team-dependent environment are two very different things.

This is very true. However, he WAS able to make decent conversation with other students.

 

[PinkpanthaMD]

Boy! After I read the title, "Look at this 13 year old," I hesitated for a moment before clicking on the link. Hoping that it wasn't Chris Hansen from Dateline.

 

[PinkpanthaMD]

"Sadly, he might not make it out of Gary, IN alive."

That's funny!

 

[aSagacious]

I've worked with plenty of kids with Asperger's before and this kid doesn't actually sound like he has it. He seems far too socially aware and circumscribed interest alone (which his might not even qualify, since the article implies he's interested in a variety of different things) shouldn't merit a full diagnosis. Seems like a misplaced label followed by a lot of parental reinforcement...

Of course I'm just an undergrad so what do I know 😛

I'm sure you're aware that Asperger's/autism (like mental ******ation) is a continuum, not absolute. It could be the case that the reporter fed him loaded yes/no questions in order to glamorize the circumstances (to make this a feel good article). With regards to his many interests, it states that his parents coerced him into these activities to 'round out his interests'. Like most Asperger's-afflicted individuals I'm sure, given the choice, he'd rather tinker with his electronics/robotics gadgets than socialize with med students. I'm not trying to detract from his accomplishments, just spointing out that the article probably doesn't paint the whole picture.

 

[mmmcdowe]

So is he in medical school or is he just doing some kind of publicity shadowing thing?

 

[Neurosis]

so jealous 🙄

 

[aSagacious]

So is he in medical school or is he just doing some kind of publicity shadowing thing?

Not in med school, just attended a prosthetics workshop.

 

[Hillo]

Cool documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CLn_B0PmwI
It starts at 0:39

Being 18, Akrit must be so mature now! =]

 

[indianjatt]

Sho Yano still continues to impress me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sho_Yano

 

[Elpenor]

I sure wish I was 13 and had Aspergers

wait, no I don't

 

[TheMightySmiter]

Not jealous, but this article made me smile. What a cool kid. 🙂 Hope he goes far in life.

 

[CougarMD]

"At one session, students were reviewing the inner workings of the upper limbs when Talarico asked them which nerve serves the biceps and other muscles.
"The musculocutaneous nerve!" Noah shouted before anyone had a chance to answer."




Sweet. Now I know at least one thing for my Anatomy test👍
This was a cool article.

 

[DrBowtie]

"At one session, students were reviewing the inner workings of the upper limbs when Talarico asked them which nerve serves the biceps and other muscles.
"The musculocutaneous nerve!" Noah shouted before anyone had a chance to answer."




Sweet. Now I know at least one thing for my Anatomy test👍
This was a cool article.

Gunner move.

 

[CougarMD]

Gunner move.

A gunner move is to only know ONE (that you learned from SDN) thing a week before the test😕

 

[DrBowtie]

A gunner move is to only know ONE (that you learned from SDN) thing a week before the test😕

No not you, kid in the story blurting out the answer when question wasn't directed to him.

 

[CougarMD]

No not you, kid in the story blurting out the answer when question wasn't directed to him.

Ohhhh, haha. Got it🙂

You can see how fried my brain is😉