Please stop blaming Asperger's for Mitt's nastiness!

[nolabear]

12. In my professional opinion, and I am one, he does not have Asperger's Syndrome.

Since I have never had him in my office I wouldn't presume to give him a DSM-IV diagnosis. But it's pretty safe to say he doesn't meet the criteria, and it's never accurate to think you know from a public persona what anyone's dx would be.

But OFF the clock, I think he's a complete asshole whose entitled, societally isolationist upbringing has played a big part in creating a brittle exterior that cracks under the least inkling that he's not the superior, messianic son of fate that he KIND OF believes himself to be. His actions reek of coming from a shell and not a core.

There's nothing more fragile than buying into your own myth, suspecting in the very back of your mind that you're not as perfect as you're told you are and will fail and die, and then finding out that you, too, really are a tool by which others are trying to advance their own interests and you, too, are disposable.

That kind of thing will mess a guy up.