When you have more than one child you discover how little influence family culture and values has on a child's personality and choice of activities, becuse they all grow up to be very different individuals from exactly the same family. We never taught any of our kids to watch tripe on TV such as "Neighbours" or "American Idol", in fact we heap *** on the kid when one of our children tunes in to this garbage, but it doesn't stop them watching! One of our kids occassionally copies AS stuff from another one of their siblings, but they do a very unconvincing imitation. At my time of life I've concluded that people grow up to be the people that they were programmed to be. Whether or not they hate themselves for it is determined by the way the person chooses to think about themselves, and the way society treats them.

If Singer has a child and a parent with AS, as is stated on the web site, she must have the gene, so I don't know why she clings to the idea that her AS traits are learned (and presumably unlearnable). She's got the gene and got some of the traits. She just needs to ask the Wizard of Oz for the courage to face the truth.