mzteris
He know how to get around - if he must do it... But I think he like to not have to do things - it is far more easy to let others do it, than to do it yourself...
I don't know to many who have Asbergers, just my brother - but he is no stupid - rather a smart man, who know a lot of things.. He have just problems expressing it, or to communicate it to others in a way who is "grown up"...
My sister call him dumb, because he often goof around when she is around.. And he often do that, when he is not secure with the ones he is around. But I know better - I know him to be a find man, who is smarter than 10 others in the room.. But who have a handicap who often is a disadvantage when he have to interact with others. We have had some great times just me and he, when we are out driving - making jokes just me and he understand - he have a habit on making jokes who is dry as a desert when he is in the "zone" to do it, Great ones, but dry... - and we also have the habit on making up some rather fancy stories now and then..
I know him to be a smart, intelligent man who, if it was not for his disadvantages, would had been in a whole different league than he is today.. But he have mastered one thing, that I have never been able to do - wood carvings, he make some amazing wood carvings, right from his own mind - and they is absolutely amassing to look at, when he is finished... He have even got "exported" it to workshops in Canada - in Japan and even some in Australia..
Diclotican