>> How you feel is irrelevant

> You know Olin, your behaviour reminds me very much of an 
> acquaintance
> that I later discovered had mild Asperger syndrome.  He 
> was renown for
> upsetting and angering people with very insensitive 
> comments but was
> completely unaware of it. Most people simply considered 
> him socially
> inept.

I resemble that :-).
Just in a different way to Olin.
I have a strong streak of social ineptitude (ask James, he's 
met me) but it usually doesn't show in the same way that 
Olin's does (always assuming of course that he actually has 
such a streak). I find that I am getting "more pronounced" 
in most of my attributes with time - the good and the bad. 
While I do not necessarily identify all the things that 
others may identify in my behaviours as bad as bad, or as 
undesirable as undesirable (or should that be as undesirable 
as bad and as bad as undesirable), but I digress, [ :-) ] , 
I am learning to moderate myself to some extent in some 
areas both for self preservation and for the sake of others. 
There's some overlap between the two :-).

Olin so far seems unwilling to moderate his asocial 
behaviours for either reason (always assuming he has such, 
as I do). It may be that he already does and what we see is 
the moderated self. As it is with me. Just imagine me 
unmoderated, as it were. Maybe not a good idea :-).




        Russell


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