Craig Nicholls diagnosed with brain disorder!

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Big surprise: http://www.nme.com/news/110590.htm

"People with AS have difficulties with transitions or changes and prefer sameness"

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

. and McDonalds.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread was useful so I could find out who Craig Nicholls was.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I be the first to do the 'I bet he buys all his undies in K-Mart' Rainman joke please?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Also cringe-inducing:

According to The Herald Sun, following the brief ten-minute hearing Nicholls said: “I’m free.”

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if this will lead to a widespread critical re-evaluation of his work. i have the embarrasing tendency to pay more attention to the mentally ill than the healthy, all else being equal.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicholls was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome after one of the band’s crew members alerted management to its existence

wow, those roadies are really earning their pay!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel bad for laughing at them up till now.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want to seem insensitive (especially as someone who has spent years arguing the legitimacy of depression as a real medical condition), but Asperger Syndrome is a diagnosis that, for lack of a better term, is sort of "hot" right now. It's sort of a fancy pants way of saying that someone has a serious problem with social skills (and has demonstrated a set of symptoms consistent with an established pattern). What defines Asperger's is fairly vague, and has changed in recent years (it's a new sort of phenomenon, like "ADD" was a couple years ago) -- it's not like schizophrenia or manic depression or something. It's more a pattern of behaviors that can be dealt with through therapy (but not TREATED with medicines, really, at least not in a direct way), than a disease or disorder.

― Nostalgia for the Old Cineramadome (Ben Boyer), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i have the embarrasing tendency to pay more attention to the mentally ill than the healthy, all else being equal.

I don't remember you paying attention to me really ever.

Jerk.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

This is sort of like the revelation that Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

waiting years after he kept saying "I don't recall," I mean.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Just wait... In 10 years they're going to reveal that Dubya has Asshat Syndrome.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Asshat Syndrome is a diagnosis that, for lack of a better term, is sort of "hot" right now.

― Nostalgia for the Old Cineramadome (Ben Boyer), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

'The person with AS may prefer soft clothing'

That explains the cardigan!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

'The person with AS may prefer soft clothing'

WTF

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 10 November 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's comfortable, reassuring. goes with the 'prefers sameness' thing.

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that I own any hard clothing

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I saw a webpage written by Wavis O'Shave (or the bloke that is him, if you know what I mean), which posited the theory about how some of the world's great thinkers were Asberger's, from Buddha down to Einstein, etc. Theory being that As people were the next chain in the evolution of man. etcet, yada...

One of Craig Nicholls first Vines songs was "Highly Evolved"

I think someone is feigning surprise at his diagnosis, here.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

some of the world's great thinkers were Assburgers

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

It must really suck having Aspergers and then having Craig Nicholls as the public face of the condition you have!

I feel sorry for the poor guys!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

It must really suck having Aspergers and then having ~~Craig Nicholls~~ILM as the public face of the condition you have!

Fixed

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not even going to argue that...

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. ROFLCOPTER.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

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