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Anxiety
Sensory issues
Particular topic obsession
Extreme reactions
Righteousness
Generally quite literal
Extreme rigidity/routine
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Repetitive behaviors/habits
Socially challenged
- Sometimes appear shy or withdrawn, but generally willing to
speak when spoken to and is at least somewhat outgoing
- Often shows negative reaction when being criticized or patronized
- Has no difficulty in accepting compliments
- Has no difficulty in starting projects
- abnormal preoccupation with lists, rules, and minor
details
- excessive devotion to work, to the detriment of
social and family activities
- perfectionism interfering with task completion, idea
that performance is never good enough
- refusal to throw anything away (pack-rat mentality)
- rigid and inflexible attitude towards morals or
ethical code - unwilling to let others perform tasks, fearing the loss of responsibility
- upset and off-balance when rules or established
routines are disrupted
Obses Obsessiv sive-Compul Compulsi sive e Per ersonality sonality Disor Disorder der (OCPD) (OCPD)
- Difficulty in correcting others without seeming insensitive/harsh
- Difficulty working as a “team”
- Interrupting in the middle of a conversation
- Lacking ability to show compassion/sympathy/sincere happiness
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Language is an ABSTRACT concept… pictures and text can be memorized. Just because you “know” something doesn’t mean you necessarily “understand” it.
If you look at any minority group, initial depictions in popular culture tend to be stereotypical
- Expelled from school on his first
day for being too disruptive… but completed the high school curriculum by age 14
- Could remember 98% of what
he read… but had difficulty with abstractions (idioms, satire, irony, etc.)
- He read over 12,000 books…
but could not dress himself, shave, brush his teeth, or cook without assistance
- He taught himself to read at 16
months old… but could not walk until age 4
- The five universities that studied
him considered him a genius in at least 15 subjects… yet he only had an IQ score of 87, which is below average