I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome 2 years ago. This has offered me insight and explanation as to why I often operate differently to (seemingly) everyone else in the known world. I have a Masters degree in Logic (for real) and a research addiction that I really haven't ever seen in anyone else. But I'm also painfully aware that we live in a society obsessed with pathologising and labelling so I assume most people reading this will over-relate and be exclaiming that they ALSO have this obsession with logic and research. Well great for you guys. I am in something of a misanthropic mood. This is new to me. In general, Aspies (of which I am depressingly typical) are over-empathetic. When I see a news story about a child in peril, it becomes my child and the tears of the mother become my own tears. I suffer injustices alongside those who suffer. I grieve for the dead and the dying, I ache for the lonely and the estranged and I weep and weep and weep for the persecut...