Neuro-Diverse Professionals --- BIG STRENGTHS and BIG CHALLENGES

Conjecture

I remember a judge in Oklahoma County who was extremely smart and he was verbally abusive to pretty much all the attorneys and anybody else who appeared before him ---

So there was a certain EQUAL OPPORTUNITY aspect to this.

AND HE GOT AWAY WITH IT --- because he was in a position of AUTHORITY.

I don't think it was clear to anybody what his problem was --- and I don't think it was clear to him either. 

I think that would be a little harder to get away with in Colorado because of surveys involving the Judiciary --- but not impossible.  

There were also at least a couple of Oklahoma judges who routinely obliquely shared their own problems with alcohol to DUI Defendants.  

I don't think that kind of "SHARING" is a magic bullet --- BUT I do think it's PART of creating a MORE HONEST and GROUNDED SOCIAL REALITY. 

The Epidemic of "Misdiagnosis" of Mental Health Problems in the Gifted Community

Adulting with Exceptionalities in the Criminal Justice System

Anti-Social Personality Disorder as a Developmental Disorder

What we need from the Medical Profession is MORE HONESTY about the LIMITS OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE and TREATMENTS.

We need something MORE SOPHISTICATED than tagging many if not most people in the Criminal Justice System with "ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER."

If we don't have something "MORE SOPHISTICATED" we need to be honest about that as well as the REASONABLE DOUBTS that are being created by CURRENT RESEARCH.