I just thought this is amazingly on the money. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it probably doesn’t matter anyway, so just ignore this.
- a difficulty conceptualizing the other person's perspective and priorities
- limited skills in persuasion
- a tendency to be confrontational and rigid
- reluctance to change a decision and admit a mistake
- an aversion to being interrupted
- a compulsion for completion
- a tendency to punish rather than praise
- a tendency to avoid demands
- a lack of knowledge of alternative strategies [1]
And:
- superficially perfect expressive language
- formal pedantic language
- odd prosody, peculiar voice characteristics [2]
Then add obsessive compulsion and clinical topical fixation to the above? I’m just sayin’, is all.
Anyway, next real post hopefully coming up over the weekend.
References
- Atwood, Tony (1998). The complete guide to Asperger's syndrome. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006. ISBN:1843104954.
Notes
[1] Atwood, pp. 119-120
[2] ibid pp. 36
Further reading
http://www.geocities.com/autistry/gould.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070407104458/http://www.aspennj.org/guide.html
