I should probably explain that a bit.. HFA and Asperger Syndrome (another autism spectrum disorder) are rather far removed from classical autism (which is what people generally think of when they hear the word). The symptoms of these disorders can be summed up to social awkwardness on a chit-chat level, eccentricity, obsessions, and sensory difficulties like light filtering. Hm.. Probably the most famous people that are believed to have such disorders are Bill Gates, Eddison, and Einstein (with Bill Gates being the more accurate case obviously, since he is still alive). Interestingly, OCD is often a co-diagnosis with AS or HFA.
Ah... Well, I would never consider such a thing as a pathology! Rather an explanation. (Sorry, I tend to look at things from more of a scientific standpoint). Regardless of any label that could be slapped on someone (with the exception of extreme psychosis and things of that sort), their actions are their own and they are responsible for them, regardless of what traits are or are not a result of their hardwiring. But I'm not militantly attached to those ideas or anything, just interested in what makes people tick the way they do.
Not twitching so much as I remember him clenching his hands at his sides a fair bit when he was just talking and not really furious or anything, and a lot of fiddling with his glasses and other little things like that.
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Date: 2010-01-04 01:39 pm (UTC)Ah... Well, I would never consider such a thing as a pathology! Rather an explanation. (Sorry, I tend to look at things from more of a scientific standpoint). Regardless of any label that could be slapped on someone (with the exception of extreme psychosis and things of that sort), their actions are their own and they are responsible for them, regardless of what traits are or are not a result of their hardwiring.
But I'm not militantly attached to those ideas or anything, just interested in what makes people tick the way they do.
Not twitching so much as I remember him clenching his hands at his sides a fair bit when he was just talking and not really furious or anything, and a lot of fiddling with his glasses and other little things like that.