Likewise, she explains that a person with Asperger Syndrome may believe someone is being deceptive simply because they miss the non-verbal cues needed to get the full meaning. I've learned to tell the difference by the context. While I am monitoring the situation, I am probably missing something else,' he says. If it were possible, Ian would love to test-run normality. Ideally, he would inhabit the mind of a teenage girl because he thinks young women display the ultimate in non-verbal fluency.
Young females are phenomenal communicators.
If you hear teenage girls talking, you hear very few words and those they do use come out at great speed. Given that this will never happen, Ian has developed techniques for functioning in the social world. I couldn't go to a cocktail party and extrapolate from it what it would be like to go to a dinner party. In fact, Ian's musical ability has proved a great asset. Many people with autism have difficulty recognising when a person is finishing a sentence.