…and should it be classified as a disorder?
If Asperger’s lack cognitive empathy (but not necessarily emotional empathy or sympathy), coordination, dexterity, but are often, not always, but usually good systematizes, perhaps to consciously, psychologically, subconsciously or unconsciously, neurologically compensate for or counterbalance their lack of empathy and athletic prowess, than the opposite would be people who’re highly empathetic, athletic, but who’re poor systematizers, people who prefer chaos, change and disorder, variety, spontaneity and multitasking to order, regularity and predictability, narrowed hobbies and interests.
There are such people, who’re indecisive, poor planners, bad with math and analytical, concrete, systematic thought, but who’re good with people, animals, or with their hands, and perhaps these positive and negative traits not always, but tend to go together, just as Asperger’s positive and negative traits tend to correlate.
People who’re poor planners and thinkers, who’re irrational, flaky and so on, can have a lot of problems in life, holding a steady job, deciding what they want to do with themselves, or being decisive at all, planning for the future, or just being logical, rational, objective in general, they prefer to be intuitive, fanciful, flighty and subjective.
So why are, you could say, extreme left brained people considered disordered, impaired, and extreme right brained people as, perfectly normal and healthy?
Or perhaps something like schizophrenia is the opposite of Asperger’s disorder.
Schizophrenics are bad at compartmentalizing things, the self from others, fantasy from reality, this from that, they see patterns where there are none, or highly dubious patterns, often missing out on mundane, obvious ones that’re right in front of their noses, where as Asperger’s are great at compartmentalizing, and being scientific, but lack creativity (althou they can possess a kind of linear creativity, they can create or uncover x, the new or novel, but only painstakingly beginning with A, then B, then C and so on down the line, where as schizophrenics might get flashes of creativity and insight, seemingly from out of the aether, they might even attribute their epiphanies to the Gods, or some mysterious force or source they’re connected to), imagination, humor, poetry and so on.
Schizophrenics aren’t really known for being good athletes or with people thou, but their thought patterns can be somewhat juxtaposed with the thought patterns of Asperger’s.