Talk:Erik Per Sullivan

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[edit] Asperger's Syndrome

Even as my last revert was temporally appropriate (relative to WP:3RR), I don't like to remove information without discussing such removal with other editors, and so I wonder here if anyone might offer views apropos of the propriety of reverting User: Cool Kizmet's recent edits. Notably, the user has twice inserted a suggestion that per Sullivan suffers from Asperger's syndrome, and, most recently, has appended an unencyclopedic locution to the effect that, at the very least, the character whom per Sullivan portrays on MITM is so afflicted. Surely specific notes as to the character of Dewey are more appropriately inserted into the MITM article, but I don't think the discussion vis-à-vis Asperger's, unsourced as it is, is particularly appropriate in any case. Notably, a Google search reveals only a handful of pages on which the prospective Asperger's of per Sullivan is discussed; a fan website contains a mention of the syndrome but quotes per Sullivan's father as denying the veracity of the rumor (this quote, I readily concede, isn't well-sourced either). Notwithstanding Cool Kizmet's recent edit noting that it is perhaps the character Dewey for whom a diagnosis of Asperger's is appropriate, it would perhaps be alright for us to include speculation about per Sullivan's condition were such speculation rampant; such speculation, then, would be news itself, irrespective of its correctness. In this case, though, as the search supra demonstrates, there is no general whispering as to per Sullivan's being an Aspie (which term is in no way pejorative, inasmuch as it's used passim as a NPOV term in our own article on the syndrome). Joe 23:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Erik does not have any of the symptoms described in the Asperger's syndrome article. I don't know how/why that rumo[u]r got started. Stephe1987 21:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)