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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