Summary

Months after returning home, Long writes to Johnson about his shame at having been involved and "obsessed with something that had such a dark side" but when Johnson asks if he has returned the feathers to the museum, he says no. Realizing that Edwin had set Long up as a fence and that Long seemed far more remorseful and to be suffering the emotional and psychological consequences of the heist more than Edwin, Johnson is "even more skeptical about the Asperger's diagnosis" (231). Johnson also questions the subjectiveness of tests designed to diagnose Aspergers and some inaccuracies in Dr. Baron-Cohen's report (such as the fact that Edwin was not motivated by money). Significantly, he also writes that, two years after Edwin's diagnosis, Asperger's was expunged from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and is no longer considered a stand-alone disorder "in large...