Bram & Jenna Cohen Update

Last week I wrote some comments regarding Bram Cohen. His wife, Jenna Cohen, responded to these comments directly on the original post, but I thought it would be important for you all to see her response in a more prominant space on the site:

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Bram never compared himself to Rainman *ever* commenters have. I was actually making your point *for* you that *not* all tech people have AS! I agree with you. By pointing out the hundreds of tech geeks I know and contrasting that by the very few people I know who have AS, I was stating that I do NOT believe that AS = being a nerd, tech geek or whatever. I hate that stereotype as well. There are many ways and reasons a person may have social difficulties and they are not all Asperger's. Not all people with AS are technicals. Assumptions like those were what prompted me to enter in to discussion about these things in the first place. We seem to disagree about very little in fact, though my actual point seems to have been misunderstood by you. I also agree that AS isn't an excuse for immoral behavior or intentional rudeness.
Bram doesn't think so either and has not engaged in immoral behavior to my knowledge. ( Unless wearing socks to a board meeting is immoral ;) I jest. Bram works as hard as any aspie I know of to avoid being intentionally rude or unkind to people. 
Just hoped to clear up our misunderstanding as I was intending to set up a contrast between AS and "tech-geekiness" rather than a comparison.>>

I sent an e-mail apology to both Cohen's. In my original post, I made comments based on what third parties wrote. My comments were made in anger and in hindsight were wrong. I should not have made comments based on what other people said without checking with the person being commented on. I certainly wouldn't want someone to do that to me or my family. The lesson I learned from this is: 1) Always check your sources; 2) Own your words, 3) Don't write in anger, and 4) Technology makes the world an incredibly small place; you never know who is going to be reading your blog : )