The symptoms are;
- impatience with and refusal to answer long lists of inane questions
- refusal to care about one's conformity to some arbitrary social 'norm'
- hatred of filling in forms
- feelings of pent up anger when confronted with petty officialdom
- ability to reason out 4 different answers when answering IQ questions (just a point here; how valid are IQ test questions if the candidate is more intelligent than the person who writes the questions?)
Now, Asperger's syndrome is well known and common among brainy people; perhaps we should introduce its lesser known relative, Asparagus Syndrome. Of course, variants are needed, such as Asparagus Syndrome by Proxy (when you think you've got it because somebody you know has it).
We could then set up an 'Association of Accredited Asparagus Therapists' and charge good money for treating people with this chronic condition (whatever you do, don't invent a syndrome you can cure; you need a constant income stream).
Who's up for it?
We need;
- some sufferers, prepared to write testimonials for the website
- some therapists (real quacks), who'll provide 'treatment'
- a couple of people who'll be portrayed as quacks providing nonsense treatment that doesn't work (preferably with extensive formal medical qualifications; psychiatrists would be ideal)
- a guru who has invented the therapy on the base of personal experience
- impatience with and refusal to answer long lists of inane questions
- refusal to care about one's conformity to some arbitrary social 'norm'
- hatred of filling in forms
- feelings of pent up anger when confronted with petty officialdom
- ability to reason out 4 different answers when answering IQ questions (just a point here; how valid are IQ test questions if the candidate is more intelligent than the person who writes the questions?)
Now, Asperger's syndrome is well known and common among brainy people; perhaps we should introduce its lesser known relative, Asparagus Syndrome. Of course, variants are needed, such as Asparagus Syndrome by Proxy (when you think you've got it because somebody you know has it).
We could then set up an 'Association of Accredited Asparagus Therapists' and charge good money for treating people with this chronic condition (whatever you do, don't invent a syndrome you can cure; you need a constant income stream).
Who's up for it?
We need;
- some sufferers, prepared to write testimonials for the website
- some therapists (real quacks), who'll provide 'treatment'
- a couple of people who'll be portrayed as quacks providing nonsense treatment that doesn't work (preferably with extensive formal medical qualifications; psychiatrists would be ideal)
- a guru who has invented the therapy on the base of personal experience
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