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I stubbed my toe the other day and wrote a lengthy letter to my grandmother about it.

Alsome spelling innovation.

Asperger's again? Can't you find some decent gimps, twitchers, or dumb mutes to write about?

So I assume then that the disability wouldn't have been removing his hands, eyes, or brain?

He has asperger's? Or Trets?

@LolCait: May have been threatening vampire-bite.

Tim has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism

Emily, I know you're just biding your time before you leave, but farming your work out to Tyra? Really?

I really like confrontationally oppositional facebook groups, like For Every Animal you don't eat, I'll eat 3 and For every meat-eater you don't fuck, I'll fuck 3.

Dear Mom,
I was just given Cerebral Palsy by one of my classmates. The dining hall food still sucks! But I'm looking forward to coming for Christmas.
Love, Tim

Wow, any relation to Fielding Yost, the legendary Michigan football coach?

Sorry, I'll go back to Deadspin now.

Is this guy threatening to give Asperger boy herpes?

The word "assemby" sounds a little disabled.

@CodePink: Him mom makes him come at christmas? Wtf!

I wonder if he's Yost as in legendary Fielding H. Yost, Michigan's former football coach and athletic director for twenty years (Yost Ice Arena is named for him). FH Yost also attended law school (at UVA)... is it a coincidence, or do you think great-grandpa's disappointed up in Wolverine Heaven?

@CodePink: I caught Muscular Dystrophy from the showers my freshman year at BC.

@Chief Wahoo: I was wondering the same thing, and all prepared to apologize for it. I'll betcha he is. Niece or something.

@Chief Wahoo: This is the sportiest I've ever been. Feels WEIRD.

@Sarcastro: Yes, but just a mild form of Herpes.

@IndianSlipper: hahahahahah!!!
@CodePink:
*coming home...

@KarenUhOh: @SylviaPlathWasFramed: Where I was raised (Ohio State territory) Yost was considered a dirty word.

Features of Asperger's incude the ability to focus on something to the exclusion of other things, but also social skills that aren't good enough to allow him to see that he's becoming a pain in the ass. This kid sounds like he's doing some good stuff, though, and is well worth defending.

That's a better legacy than telling people you were student government president in college. At least people give a shit about Facebook.

If I were this kid, the statement:

"his legacy-fairly or unfairly-will likely be defined by the Facebook group"

Would excite me to no end. This kid's a genius.

I can imagine how a person with Asperger’s could wreak havoc on parliamentary procedure. If his obsession were with the assembly and its procedure, he could turn the process into an endless game of hairsplitting and debate for its own sake. The game would be meaningful and stimulating to him, but purposeless and tedious to everyone else.

There are, however, ways for an adept chairperson to control the procedure in such a way as to handle irrelevant questions and amendments expeditiously. Creating an insulting Facebook group is not one of them.

I hate aspergers. It makes my pee smell bad.

@LolCait: I accepted a facebook friend request from a stranger and I got genital warts.

@LolCait: @CodePink: Dormcest led to the entire hall coming down with a bad case of malaria junior year at Fordham.

@iplaudius:

Yeah, a simple "dude: the autism? Cut it" would probably have sufficed.

But I love this post more for its "insult the easy target" phone-in. Because "integrity" means "never actually having to stop being kind of mean-spirited."

@Chief Wahoo: Well, I hesitate to admit this to you, but I'm from Champaign. I once put out a cigarette in Gary Moeller's bourbon. He drank it anyway.

@KarenUhOh: I now have the utmost respect for you and Gary Moeller.

Assemby?

and I hope they all stay in Michigan.

@IndianSlipper: And cum taste bad, or so I hear.

The President has MS

@Michael Jahn: Not if you eat pinapple every day, or so I hear.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: It's sad, knowing your older brother both has Aspbergers and picks on kids with Aspbergers. Kind of makes you want to get on a basketball court and kick your older brother's ass a couple of times.

@djdavetrouble: Part of the big problem with the University of Michigan is that so many of its students come from Long Island. The really stupid ones, usually.

"Yost's accomplishments as president include .. developing an intern program to get more freshmen involved in student government." Wow. An intern program for STUDENT government. Could you be more pointlessly self referential? Then again, practically every college has added a 'first year seminar' program in the last decade, which is like a class to learn how to take a college class.

@Chief Wahoo: Where I was raised, Ohio was considered a dirty word.

@KarenUhOh: Champagne Urbana or Urbana Champagne?

@Mediahohoho: Shampoo Banana.

@KarenUhOh: OMG, I hear they have awesome, though dangerous, showers.

@Mediahohoho: Go Illini! Rose Bowl Baby!

@IndianSlipper: Although I share your enthusiasm, I daresay you will be the first and last person to broach that topic on these fine pages.

We really need to change the subject now. They're already leaving in droves.

@IndianSlipper: A well-deserved entree to the lion's den. G'luck.

@KarenUhOh: LOL, if there was an award for having the last post on a board I'd probs win.

@Chief Wahoo: Fascinating. We here in the rest of the Midwest consider "Ohio" to be an especially icky cuss word.

@Chief Wahoo: @SylviaPlathWasFramed: I'm going to say probably yes. There's more than just one building on campus named after Fielding Yost, so it makes sense his progeny would keep on coming.

Not as big a swear as "Ind**na," though. I said that word once in front of my mom and she grounded me for a month. She was right to do it.

@SylviaPlathWasFramed: FIB= fucking Indiana bastards.

Wonder if they'll kick him out of Michigamua, too.

@KarenUhOh:
You share IndianSlipper's enthusiasm for the Illini? I thought we were Mizzou siblings-in-arms??

@IndianSlipper: @SylviaPlathWasFramed:
There is nothing good about Indiana.

I went to middle school with Zack. I just edited our friend details to say not only did we go to school together, but that I read about him on Gawker. Do you think he'll confirm?

@Mediahohoho: Chambana.

IU grad says cut to the chase.

@Trampoline: Don't whine just 'cause your complexion doesn't go with your school colors.

@Trampoline: Can't help you there. I'm a Cardinal fan, if it's any consolation.