However I don’t think of Asbergers as a disease. It is just a different way of being in the world. Once I found out about my friend, I thought “oh, well, that makes a lot of sense”. I don’t think it is a “disease” any more than is homosexuality or left handedness.

I know I have my weirdnesses amd I used to have repetitive behaviours that I grew out of but it was a way of working stressors out and Goddess knows I had a lot of them. I’m willing to bet I would have been at some point.

A good example, I think, of Aspergers can be found in the character Temperance Brennen on “Bones”. Although she has really good hand/eye coordination, she is constantly trying to figure out what the appropriate emotional response for a given situation is. She will then “try it out” and look to Booth to let her know whether or not she did it “right”.