difficulty getting, being and staying organised and yet I need obsessively to organise things my way!

www.mugsy.org/wendy. Also, unlike the original

But the one thing we all have in common is the ability to focus intensely upon an area of interest.

By contrast, monotropic attention is focused attention allowing a tighter, smaller set of interests at any one time (Murray and Lesser 2006).

I’m suggesting development in AS is different to NT development one should not assume that all difference is deviant, in the sense that even if difference is outside the bell-shaped curve (usually considered as the template for normal), it could still be seen as relevant to neural diversity, rather than deviant or dysfunctional.

Rett’s disorder,

Within the context above ‘interests’ refers to a system of connected awareness that presents quite differently, according to whether you are on the neurologically typical spectrum (sometimes referred to as ‘NT’ or ‘normal’) or whether you are on the autistic spectrum (AS). Typical interests, in this context, are a product of alignment of one’s own

Having said this, I am confident that my being autistic is an advantage when it comes to scientific discovery, research, study and much more.

Whereas, for those of us in the AS population, some might answer with a long, detailed monologue about their health or their special interest, or they might ignore the person asking the question because they cannot process an answer fast enough.