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Old 11-15-2008, 09:37 PM
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Are there varying degrees of Asperger's? A guy I knew back in HS had it and you'd really never know except he'd do some quirky things once in a while and he sometimes didn't understand why people were upset when he said or did something crappy. Besides that, he seemed normal. I thought the Dr. Dixon character seemed to be a more extreme case.
Dr. Dixon did seem extreme, and deadbear is right -- like anything else on the spectrum, it's different for every one.

Our son sounds more like the guy from your high school. You might just mistake his Aspergers for some lousy social skills if you didn't know a few give-away clues he presents -- not looking people in the eye, talking on and on about a particular subject (perseverence) and a few others.
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