Here are a number of interesting pages written by someone with Asperger’s syndrome. Most excellently, he suggests that people with Asperger’s can use telemarketers to practice their social interactions with NT (neurologically typical) people. He writes:
“Outbound telemarketing involves solicitation by organizations, usually using predictive dialing equipment. Generally they do not use “opt-in” lists and almost universally, they don’t care.
Or maybe they do care. On Planet Aspie telemarketers exist for the purpose of training people how to interact. Perhaps it’s the same way here.
Much as it’s possible to learn how to drive a car in snow by intentionally skidding the car in a safe place, telemarketers offer a “safe place” to learn how to interact badly. So even if you learn by getting your number “blacklisted” by telemarketing companies, you learn nevertheless! ”
Excellent!
posted at 19:12 on Thu, 16 Dec, 2004 |
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