As a matter of fact, I have a friend with ASD, to a significant enough degree that it’s barely possible to talk to him for a couple of minutes without realizing he has some sort of social disorder, who somehow has managed to become the most successful and prolific social networker I know. It may have helped that one of his primary obsessive focuses was an interest that many other people share (he practically ran the music scene on college campus,) but the degree of social success he’s achieved in spite of his disadvantages is completely beyond my ability to explain. He’d make an interesting psychological case study.
As a matter of fact, I have a friend with ASD, to a significant enough degree that it’s barely possible to talk to him for a couple of minutes without realizing he has some sort of social disorder, who somehow has managed to become the most successful and prolific social networker I know. It may have helped that one of his primary obsessive focuses was an interest that many other people share (he practically ran the music scene on college campus,) but the degree of social success he’s achieved in spite of his disadvantages is completely beyond my ability to explain. He’d make an interesting psychological case study.