“Against this catalog of social difficulties, we must keep in mind that AS involves a different kind of intelligence. The strong drive to systemize means that the person with AS becomes a specialist in something, or even in everything they delve into. One man with AS in Denmark who I met put it this way: “You people [without AS] are generalists, content to know a little bit about a lot of subjects. We people [with AS] are specialists. Once we start to explore a subject, we do not leave it until we have gathered as much information as we can.” In effect, the systemizing drive in AS is often a drive to identify the underlying structure in the world.” EmpathyAutismPsychiatryAspergers SyndromeSystemizing Book:The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism Source: The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
“Systemizing and empathizing are wholly different kinds of processes. You use one process—empathizing—for making sense of an individual’s behavior, and you use the other—systemizing—for predicting almost everything else. To systemize you need detachment in order to monitor information and track which factors cause information to vary. To empathize you need some degree of attachment in order to recognize that you are interacting with a person, not an object, but a person with feelings, and whose feelings affect your own.” EmpathyAutismEvolutionary PsychologySex DifferencesMental Modules Book:The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism Source: The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
