ABSTRACT
In terms of learning about life, there is no significant difference between Aspies and NTs. In both cases, bad experiences lead to bad psychology. Aspies have many real reasons to be frightened, depressed, unwilling to try, dreamy, isolated, off on their own. Attitude and belief, including negativity, is learnt from experience, though there may well be a pattern in Asperger's that makes negative thinking more likely than is the norm. A social and communication disorder only shows itself in situations calling for social and communication skills, which develop as the young child grows and learns from experience. It may well also be true that some people with Asperger's have a weakened sense of themselves compared to us neurotypicals, but it is also self-evident that they share the mechanism we all have that allows us to learn from our experience.
