Placement Service a Boon for People with Asperger's {denmark}

[saras]

4. Curious.

"but that they have trouble when it comes to matters of the heart, making it difficult for them to laugh at funny things or comfort those who are sad"

Nothing to do with my Aspergers' at all. No, the heart is easy, it's acting and game-playing and multiple layers of socially acceptable dishonesty that are challenging. It's primate dominance games that are challenging. It's people who think "it should be obvious I'm sad because I'm acting angry instead of sad" that are difficult. Or people who are clearly, obviously, repulsed by us but are socially trained to not let it OVERTLY show, while they desperately signal to everyone around us that "they're not one of us". Monty Python's "nudge-nudge, wink-wink" routine appears to some of us with Aspergers' like a parody of sheeple trying to teach us how to be social.

Most Aspergers' disabilities can be overcome, not just worked around. It may take ten, or twenty, years of exercising the brain, but it's easier than recovering from physical brain damage, and people do that regularly.