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Re:Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf] by stickfigure on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:04PM (#31880101)
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.

Re:Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf] by quacked on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:50PM (#31880664)
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.