Joel just wrote a review of the book The Curious Incident of the Dog , written from the perspective of a fifteen-year old who has Asperger's Syndrome, which is a kind of high-functioning autism that has a disproportionate presence among software developers such as myself. Those with AS tend to be very logical thinkers yet socially inept, lacking a theory of "mind" which allows one to sympathize with and understand another person. It's has a rank of 24 at Amazon; I am going to check it out.
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August 21, 2004
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I've been wanting to ask something since you first brought up Asperger's:
You are obviously very intelligent. Can't you invest time to learn about how humans express emotions and use that to understand how other people feel and pick up social cues?
You'd never achieve the social sensitivity of somebody that is hardwired with that ability, but you might become good enough to improve the quality of your everyday life.
Dejan
Posted by: Dejan Jelovic | August 20, 2004 at 10:53 PM