Snapedom

While I find most of your post to be well thought-out and interesting, I do have one problem with it, specifically your use of Autism/Aspergers in relation to JKR and the portrayal of some of her characters. Neither of these disorders has anything to do with a lack of empathy. Rather, they have more to do with the inability to understand and respond to social cues. It's not narcissism or sociopathy; they have feelings like everyone else. It's more like long-term awkwardness and confusion, and really, it's difficult enough as it is without half the world painting these groups as either total psycos or as mentally retarded.

I don't really expect this comment to make much of a difference, if any, but I hope you will at least reconsider before using these disorders as a slur in the future.