Hi. Very interesting website, as one living all his life in a farmhouse that operated on most of these principles as a matter of course until about forty years ago.
I've been lurking for a time, but I had to post for this one. This is a convoluted topic, because there are those who self-diagnose and identify as ASD types as an almost cultural thing, and others, especially on the internet, who just throw it out rather dubiously to excuse dire and unrepentant behaviour. It's become this whole drama thing, y'know?
As one with a diagnosis and a nasty five week hospital visit I'd lean towards it being a pure neurological developmental shebang, and that unless you're impaired enough to impact your lifestyle, it's beter to leave the self-diagnosis alone and consider you've got a handy smattering of traits, as opposed to the more serious issues like having trouble recognising faces due to distortions of expressions, or the complexities of others and your own emotional states.
I mean seriously, I only discovered this year that people feel different intensities of emotion depending on the circumstance, while I assumed it was a conscious linguistic artefact, or that neurotypicals could feel two different conflicting emotions at once! that sounds pretty messy to me, but then I imagine I sound messed up to them.
I'm rambling. I just wanted to say there's a lot going on in that question, and the neurologists can be quite interesting when they speak of the physiological differences found so far.
Also this website is utterly baller.
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