Socially inept, self-involved and geeky? Temple Grandin, “perhaps the world’s best known sufferer of Asperger’s Syndrome”, recognized a fellow traveler in Kevin Mitnick when she watched him in a TV interview about a year ago. She, and others, have been thinking about whether AS is an indication that a child is at risk of becoming a hacker. Mitnick himself identified with a fellow hacker imprisoned with him and diagnosed as having Asperger’s. Some counter that Asperger’s is closely associated with rigid rectitude; if not hackers and crackers, how about a link between AS and nerdiness in general? USA Today