Reply #57: Have Aspergers - *is* most certainly a social handicap [View All]

[Zynx]

Some of the other things I can do are quite incredible and I would not trade them away (shockingly intelligent, amazing memory for material and detail), but social situations for me border somewhere between uncomfortable and miserable. I'm normal enough that people who don't know me don't suspect there is anything wrong, which also creates a few problems. They think I'm being a wall flower or a jerk when I really just don't know how to go up to someone and talk to them, etc.

As far as trying to "cure" it as described in the top post, I would say that borders on child abuse.