In a message dated 4/15/2005 1:10:47 AM Mountain Standard Time,
Bowerbird@aol.com writes:
no, of
course you don't.
Yes. It means you almost certainly have Asperger's Disorder. Get in touch
with a psychiatrist specializing in forms of autism and arrange to be evaluated
for it. Unfortunately there's no cure for it, which is why I seem to wind up in
so many flame wars that I never MEANT to get into, but once you know you have it
you can occasionally remember to ask yourself, "Do I really want to say this, or
does Asperger's want to say this?" Of course you MIGHT have paranoia with or
without schizophrenia, or schizophrenia with or without paranoia, or you MIGHT
have bipolar depression, but it's really hard to believe that you could succeed
in being this obnoxious without SOME kind of mental illness. It definitely
looks to me like autism or a related personality disorder, though.
By the way, I OWN an e-publishing house. I distribute on FictionWise.com
and on eBookWise.com, and I DON'T republish anything from Gutenberg. I feel
very strongly that selling something that is easily available free is
counterproductive and somewhat dishonest. I did post one thing on Gutenberg
several years ago, with a note that it was copyright and could be used only for
nonprofit purposes. That one I have now posted for sale, but I already owned the
copyright.
Ebooks are like videos: you can buy them, or rent them, or check them out
from a library for free. You're seeing a war where there isn't one. Television
didn't kill radio. Videos and, now, DVDs didn't kill television. E-book stores
aren't going to kill Gutenberg. Your thinking is much too narrow; that's another
reason I'm suspecting autism of some sort.
That is all I have to say on this topic. I just came on to check emails. I
have pneumonia and I am going back to bed now. Now go away until after you've
seen a good psychiatrist. As it might take several months for you to get in, and
then another six months before the psychiatrist is able to figure out what
combination of meds will help you the most (I changed meds every two weeks for
eight months), everybody else can have a nice long rest.
Anne
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