The Vines' Craig Nicholls diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome

That explains it then...

WTF!IT AINT NO DIESEASE!AND HE AINT NO DAMN RETARD!AND YEA HE HAS 2 B LET OFF HE HAS A BRAIN DISORDER...A BRAIN DISORDER!or a autisum or sumthin like that i mean goddamit wtf hes no cock or retard or w/e!

Why all the dislike of Craig Nicholls?

Hes a hugely talented song writer and his band are cool.

It's not a disease.

Aspergers is NOT a disease and is the opposite of being retarded. Famous people who have (post-humously) been diagnosed with it include Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. Rather than meaning the person with it is unintelligent, it means -more often than not- they are hyperintelligent and excel in whatever field they choose to specialise in (obviously this doesn't apply to Mr Nicholls)...

Just because you don't like him or the Vines, doesn't mean you have the right to be insulting, bigotted and prejudiced. Ignorant abled cunts like you really piss me off and you're as fuuckin' ubiqetous as the shit you have for brains.

Well for a start he didn't know that was wrong with him and secondly even if he had known why should he make a point of telling people about his personal business, look at how many ignorant people have already called him a 'retard' since reading about it.
I love the fact that people slag him off for a being a bit of a cock when ok, it doesn't totally excuse it but he has a genuine social problem and it may not be apparent but he's probably quite cut up about it...and everyone still thinks Pete Doherty is a god just because the NME love him when he is far more of a twat and has more control over his situation. So he has an addiction yes boo hoo but there are ways to sort that out unlike Asperger Syndrome and all Mr Doherty can do it half heartedly start sorting himself out and then give up and continue to screw up things for people around him or not show up to gigs cos he, Mr Rockstar, doesn't feel like it. Ok so the Libertines r marginally better than the Vines but in the grand scheme of things that is irrelevant, they're both still just people. Rant over!

yes.

you're fucking sick. whatever you think of him - and i'm not a fan - claiming that you'd be completely indifferent to a terminal illness is just so fucked-up.

i hope you read this back one day and realise how stupid what you wrote really is.

Uh oh, mooseman.

You are a dick.

Is one of the symptoms being really boring?

Well said, good comparisson. They're both the kind of thing where you wish you had control over how ur but u just don't. I used to suffer from severe depression and people telling me to 'cheer up' was actually quite hurtful. You try so desperately to act happy but when it's not how u feel u can't, it's really difficult.
His behaviour seems quite impulsive and I'm sure he's hardly proud of the way he is but he doesn't necessarily have much control over it.
Yeah I agree with you that those who are still slagging him off are probably basing it on the fact they don't like his music and therefore can't be bothered to try and understand him which is pathetic.

Doing social psychology has caused me to comment far too much on this post!

well said

i still think his music's crap though

it *doesnt* say he's only just been diagnosed with it, it says it was only made public recently. if the defence knew about Craig's condition, then Craig himself must have known and if it takes a court case to bring this out then chances are he didnt want people to know.

i don't think that's a stupid question.

wtf? you really that stupid or are you taking the piss? fucktard

Sorry to hear you're having problems, but I really must take issue with your asertion about deaf people:

"It's like when you get deaf parents who refuse to get cochlear implants for their kids because they think there's nothing wrong with being deaf. It's fucking evil."

No, it's not 'fucking evil'. In times past there were no cochlear implants and that child would've been deaf anyway and would've had no choice but to live with it.

Are you deaf personally? If you are deaf and you personally wish you weren't, then fair play, but you must understand that not everyone with the condition may have had the same negative experiences as you, and if they have then they may have approached/viewed them differently.

If you are not deaf, then you must understand that deaf parents making such a choice for their child are making an informed decision based upon their own experience and the reasoning behind that decision is something that non-deaf people will never be in a position to understand.

IMHO having a disability can make a person superior to abled people because it lends a strength of character that 'normal' people often don't posess (whatver 'normal' is).

As a person with Cerebral Palsy, if I was ever given 3 wishes by a genie, wishing I was born able-bodied would not be one of them. Yes being disabled isn't by any means easy, but then life in general isn't. That's the whole point.

Most of the problems disabled people have arise not from the logistics of their particular condition, but from the ignorance and callousness of the able-bodied masses. This is called the Social Model of Disability and the sooner the world's governments acknowledge this and make disability education/awareness etc one of their top priorities the easier being disabled will become.

I think this may well be an incorrect diagnosis (something extremely common).

Why?

Asperger's sufferers go out of their way to avoid violence and conflict. I seem to remember Nicholls smashing a journalist's dictaphone. An Asperger's person is unlikely to do this.

Nicholls' facial expressions are far more complex than those of most Asperger's sufferers, who only have the basic emotions and often use them inappropriately.

Nicholls has described a Vines song as "sarcastic". Asperger's sufferers don't usually understand sarcasm. They also find it hard to lie and understand metaphors/analogies (they take them literally).

From what I know about Nicholls, it sounds more likely that he has ADD (attention defecit disorder), though I by no means know enough to be certain.

What I find most interesting about autism is that, to some extent, everyone suffers from it- we all have traits associated with autism-usually an obsessiveness about something (trainspotting, for example), strange rules (people who won't eat their food if, say, their chips are touching their carrots) or strange habits (I always run my hands down a radiator if I walk past one).

Anyone wanting to know more about Asperger's should read the very excellent "Curious Incident of the Dog In The night time" by Mark Haddon.

Ok let's not go over the top here. The Vines are world-conquering.

Good songwriter. Unfortunately has Aspergers. Deserves some slack.

Fin.

fair enough the guy might have this disorder but he plays on it!

when his defence used it to get him off the court charges

Craig Nicholls deserves support through his illness.

I just hope the Vines can continue in some form as theyre too talented to not make records.