![]() ![]() ![]() What he thinks is funny is really sort of not so funny. Shuster cited “an uncle who specializes in the field of Asperger’s”-a mild variant of autism-who had “suggested that perhaps Mitt Romney has some sort of form of Asperger’s because he’s so socially inept in terms of being able to connect with people. In August, after a string of campaign-trail bloopers by Mitt Romney (e.g., at a New Hampshire parade, he described his lemonade as “lemon … wet … good”), noted diagnostician David Shuster, a television personality at Current TV, floated the idea that Romney might be on the spectrum. “Is every producer on it? Is every 8-year-old boy who is obsessed with statistics on it? Sometimes, when we say someone is on the spectrum, do we just mean he’s a prick? Or a pathological narcissist? I notice that at least three times a week I am told (or I tell someone) that some man or other is on the spectrum.”Įphron was hardly alone. “Is every man in America somewhere on it?” Nora Ephron wondered about the autism spectrum in an e-mail to a friend a few months before her death. Brown/Getty Images (Aykroyd) Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images (Rowling) Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images (Rodman) Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images (Romney) ![]() Hebert/Getty Images (Harmon) Universal History Archive/Getty Images (Jefferson) Photo12/UIG/Getty Images (Darwin) David Wolff-Patrick/Redferns via Getty Images (Slash) Universal History Archive/Getty Images (Einstein) Nati Harnik/ap (Buffett) Frederick M. Photo: Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images (Obama) Krasilnikov Stanislav/Itar-Tass Photo/Corbis (Zuckerberg) Adele Starr/AP (Aates) Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images (West) Powell/Express/Getty Images (Warhol) Gary Gershoff/WireImage (Byrne) Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic (Hannah) Paul A. ![]()
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