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Publicity-starved Portland doctor pimps Asperger's symptoms as Internet addiction

By Jackson West, 1:00 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008, 765 views

"Dr. Block says about 86 percent of Internet addicts have some other form of mental illness, but that unless a therapist is looking for it, Internet addiction is likely to be missed." By "other form of mental illness," we're guessing Asperger's sufferers like BitTorrent's not-so-adorably quirky founder Bram Cohen. [Canada.com] (Photo by Irina Slutsky)

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