What are the differences between a eurotypical adult and an adult with Aspergers Syndrome?
Every individual is different. There are so many common differences between neurotypicals and aspies (people with Asperger’s syndrome). Here are a few of the most common differences: – Neurotypicals have normal social skills and they pick up social cues easily. A lot of social skills that aspies must put a lot of work into learning and using come naturally to neurotypicals. Neurotypicals can successfully interact with others without putting much effort into it. – Aspies have poor social skills and lack the ability to learn them on their own. They lack the ability to pick up social cues, struggle to understand non-verbal communication, such as body language, facial expressions or tone of voice. They tend to take things rather literally and struggle to understand sarcasm, jokes, metaphors and other non-literal things. They are socially awkward and don’t always know what is appropriate behavior for each situation, so they sometimes do something inappropriate or rude without intending to o
