Asperger's Syndrome

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Thu May 8 09:33:19 PDT 2003


At 08:41 PM 5/7/03 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
>However, did he discuss _how_ common it is ?  Just because it is common

>does not mean it is the norm.

Probably means "don't count on it, but I've seen it many times before".

>leave you now with a level of vision that still represents a retrograde

>motion (albeit smaller) since you first got corrected, it could still
be
>consistent with my uninformed musing.

Its well known that folks become far-sighted (short-armed 8-) with age.
Its well known that close-work leads to near-sightedness, or you might
just
be born with it.  So you might think they would cross over at some point

--leading to retrograde acuity.  I'm nearing 40 and it hasn't happened
yet,
though I haven't asked my optometrist to plot the second derivative of
my resolution.
Its encouraging to find that Neil is benefitting from age.  He chose
better ancestors
in that respect than me.





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