There's no evidence that he is aspies or even autistic at all. Even though I
would surmise such a guess based on what I've read of his court behaviour,
I'm not sure having aspies in the jury would even be beneficial to him.

On 22/03/2008, Sean Casey <sean@...> wrote:
>
> Being a techie, I've been following the Hans Reiser trial a bit...
>
> Regardless of guilt, it seems like he's getting a lot of judgement for the
> NT interpretation of aspie characteristics. It seems like he'd get more
> fair
> treatment if there were one or more aspies on the jury.
>
> Any thoughts on this? It's pretty disturbing to thing that the legal
> system
> will judge and castigate based on flawed interpretation of vocal and
> nonvocal
> communication.
>
> What may appear to be a towering ego is often someone who has no choice
> but
> to tell the truth as they see it. There's a big difference.
>
> Doesn't it make sense that if you're going to try an AS person there
> should be some on the jury to make sure it's fair?
>
> Sean
>
>


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