I think Mitt has Aspergers Syndrome

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81. There are a number of things that could cause Aspergers-like behavior

My older son has (or in in some areas had when younger) a number of what are commonly listed as characteristics of Aspergers: difficulty picking up subtleties of body language and tones of voice, trouble making eye contact, a certain obsessiveness, talking about his own interests at length, bad handwriting and trouble tying shoelaces, oversensitivity to stimuli, occasionally a "robotic" way of speaking.

But when we were taking him around to psychologists and asked about Aspergers, we were immediately told, "Oh, definitely not. You can tell just by looking at him." In his case, it turned out to be attention deficit plus some other stuff that make it harder for him to handle outside stimuli -- which he often coped with by deliberately tuning out -- and more preoccupied with his own inner "chatter."

But one of the problems was that because he's very smart, none of his teachers ever suggested that we might get professional help, even though he struggled in certain areas. His first grade teacher complained that he couldn't stay on task for 10-15 minutes like the other children, but concluded "that's just the way he is." In high school, I asked his gifted teacher about the possibility of attention deficit and she said, "smart kids get bored in class a lot and their minds wander."

In Romney's case, I suspect there's something similar at work, except that instead of intelligence, it's money. That is, he's got some form of social deficit -- which might or might not be Aspergers -- but because of his background, he was always indulged and never had to actually deal with it and learn how to get along with people.