Agreed. (Where's that "like" button??
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I see this all the time where I live, as well-- it's a function of having a large university and a major regional medical center--
and a high tech company. Lots of engineers (which tend to be an Aspie-enriched group, in my experience) and
also lots of gifties (specialist physicians and faculty).
The two groups are WAY different from one another socially, but the difference isn't in their level of specialty interest-- it is instead in the level of adaptability to conversation. The gifties
can give proper social signals in response to boring drivel that they could care less about, and refrain from discussing the stuff that they are
actually interested in... and the Aspies (mostly) cannot.
Most people really don't have very good communication skills. This actually makes things far harder on Aspies than it should be, IMO. Come to that, it makes life harder on everyone else, too.
