And also as important, somebody who will set aside the superficial symptoms and go to the core of his problem. Somebody who will not let himself be caught by his highly misleading appearance. He not only needs to be taught to understand. He also needs to be understood. I used to believe that today's kids with Asperger would have it much easier than we did, but that doesn't always seem to be the case.
Autistic children seem to be faring better.
They are being tought to understand with the Loovas method. Now that I know about Asperger, I have been slowly putting together some of my experiences and knowledge to derive useful meaning from previously unconnected bits of information. The needle was stuck. I tinkered with it with a magnet I had, and the magnet pulled on the needle and released it. Then I found that I could move the needle to any number I wanted by sliding the magnet at the bottom.