My father-in-law has low-grade Asperger's. He is fully functional just really socially awkward and has quite a few ticks (I think they are endearing). It doesn't seem to bother him. He is an engineer so he falls into the stereotypical "good at math" group.
He has invented several fairly big items - remote thermometers and the tire pressure monitoring system used in most high-end vehicles. However, he has been unemployed for quite a while now (at least two years).
If you do have it you should be able to get some insight into your own behavior and how your brain works.
Well, I'd say I definitely identify more with people with Asperger's than with average people. I'm probably hesitant to embrace it whole-heartedly for a lot of reasons, among them that psychology is really closer to astrology than some kind of hard science (not to say it doesn't have its role).
Over time you learn to adapt and imitate others so that you don't stand out as much and from first glance or a short conversation, but it's not any kind of newsflash to me that I'm different from other people.
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He has invented several fairly big items - remote thermometers and the tire pressure monitoring system used in most high-end vehicles. However, he has been unemployed for quite a while now (at least two years).
If you do have it you should be able to get some insight into your own behavior and how your brain works.
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Over time you learn to adapt and imitate others so that you don't stand out as much and from first glance or a short conversation, but it's not any kind of newsflash to me that I'm different from other people.
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