There's an issue that intrigues me which may have nothing to do with autism, and certainly affects the wider population, but has been pointed out to me in the past as signifying asperger logic at work.
Its the problem of "which way" to do something. The asperger response may be controlled too tightly by logic, and therefore less flexible.
The commonest form of this is opening doors on public buildings where almost inevitably you push when you are meant to pull, or the right hand door is the one that's free but you'll always try the left hand one which is bolted. I think that problem is universal.
In Nick Dubin's book on "Asperger Syndrome and Bullying - strategies and solutions" JKP 2007, on p18-20 he describes a humiliating experience of not being able to turn the handle of the classroom door to open it when all the NT kids could. The door handle turned the illogical way. The AS response is not to try the illogical way.
I have this trouble with computers. I can access my work emails from home, but there's a crude way of accessing previous pages by selecting arrow keys. Back is to left, forward is to right. But it is forward for some daft reason that accesses previous pages. Back keeps coming up "done" but there's no change. Yet time and time again I get stuck here because its not logical to me to press "forward" to go "back"
Does anyone think this is an Autism/Asperger thing, or is it just something that affects the wider population?
