Having spent my professional life around comp. science and maths departments, I noticed decades ago that any "neurotypical" individual happening to stray into such realms stood out like a proverbial sore thumb. The introduction of this book reads like a personality test checklist for their academic denizens --- I found myself nodding in recognition sufficiently often to qualify under "repetitive behaviour" --- in addition, that is, to a substantial proportion of the remainder! WFL On 4/16/17, Douglas Rogers <dgrbgsu@gmail.com> wrote:

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* Michael Fitzgerald, Antoinette Walker Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger's Syndrome (liberties Press <http://www.libertiespress.com/>, Dublin, 2006) <https://books.google.com/books?id=EU0xBwAAQBAJ>

Michael Fitzgerald is Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and is the leading expert on Asperger's syndrome and autism in Ireland. He has written extensively about these subjects and addressed national and international symposia on them.