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Asperger’s in Adults: You think you know the faces of Asperger’s Autism

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there’s also another popular phrase in some of the adult abt trade books adults

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with a d_h_ t_r_ good at piper focusing this true is mythology

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hyper focusing is actually for separation

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you are unable to interrupt what you’re doing

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when you surely have shifted to doing something else

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it is like the child who continues to play the video game

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long after they should have been getting dressed for school and out to the box

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you want to call that high performance and that’s fine but that is a classic

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sign of a frontal lobe injury and it is perceptive responding

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you should have stopped what you’re doing

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and you didn’t

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there were other more important goals to have been accomplished

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and you would not want them

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this is no gift

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it is in fact a symptom of this disorder

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hyper focusing goes with autism

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process for rationing goes with a dat