Re: Support RMS

[Thomas Lord <lord@basiscraft.com>]

Good.  Now let's spend a few months dissecting and discussing YOU TWO's 
psychology, personality, and so forth, your alleged vices, how you are 
tragic figures in our chin-stroking opinions, what authority systems we 
can use to prevent you from causing problems, and so on.  That's why 
people sign up to the list, right?

-t



On 2021-03-26 23:13, Aaron Wolf wrote:
> 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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