Re:Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
by sandworm101 on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:45PM
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I have known lawyers who struggle with aspergers. I was at law school with a man who had tourettes. He had to take his exams in a separate room due to his outbursts. Ive also met professionals with obsessive compulsive disorder so bad that, in the past, they might have been locked up. Mental illness, even mental disability, does not preclude as many vocations as most people think.
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Re:Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
by stickfigure on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:04PM
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I don't think the kind of mental disability described in Flowers For Algernon fits in the same category as aspergers, tourettes, OCD, or mental illness (as we typically use the term).
I suspect Forrest Gump does not actually exist.
My two siblings have "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome", and I do not. (All three of us were adopted, each from different families.) I grew up with them and Flowers For Algernon resonates very deeply with me, as it is very closely analogous to how they grew up.