Imagine that whenever you speak to others, you can only do so from the other side of a sheet of opaque glass, so that you can't really interpret their facial expressions.
In addition, whoever you're speaking to is using one of those voice changers that make his voice sound like a robot's, so you can't glean any emotions from his intonations.
Then imagine that you had to conduct your every conversation in a foreign language which you'd studied for only two years, so that you have no feel for idiom, and take everything literally.
But at the same time, you are constitutionally incapable of admitting you're wrong, so whenever people correct you, you must insist you're right.
Then imagine that you have a set of very rigidly held beliefs, and every time someone disagreed with you, you become furious, like a devout Muslim shown a disparaging cartoon of Muhammad.
It would be a tough way to have to go through life.
Of course, spending time around someone like that must not be any picnic either.
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Hi John,
Very good description of a person with Aspergers. However, why, if I may ask, did you think to write about this? Strangely, Bill Gates is reputed to have Aspergers. Thanks, Brian
Brian --
Thank you, and yes, Bill Gates is widely thought to have Aspergers.
I just wrote about this for the same reason i write about anything, because it just occurred to me. I have a very undisciplined mind, as this ADD-like blog demonstrates.
So politicians are narcissists with Asperger's? G
G --
Politicians are frequently narcissists and occasionally sociopaths from what I can see. It'd be hard to gt ahead in politics as an Aspie; Al Gore is the only one I'm aware of who seems to have Asperges. You generally have to have a taste for and be good at glad-handing, and you also have to be able to read people to get head in politics.
Haha! "get head in politics". G
G --
Oops. That was a typo.
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