A few musings on Aspergers

I've got a number of friends who have Aspergers, including some of my closest friends. They're all generally lovely people, but every now and then they do something completely unexpected making you think "but.. but... what did you do that for?" and you suddenly see how their world view is subtly different. It's always fascinating when it happens.

I was therefore interested to read some of the links that enlightened77 posted on the topic, particularly these two scenarios, as it seems an excellent example of this subtly different way of viewing situations.

When going through them, without hesitation I went for the standard non-aspergers answers as they seemed obvious. It was only reading through the brief discussion afterwards that I started to see why people might go for the other option.

One day I may go and learn some psychology, as it's always seemed a curious subject, but alas too many things are.

EDIT Given the comments it seems worth explaining my reasoning in choosing my responses:

( cut for those that haven't looked at the scenarios yet )