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'''Asperger's Disorder''' (or '''Asperger's Syndrome''') is also #REDIRECT ]
known as high-functioning ]. People with this syndrome have trouble making the empathic and social connections between themselves and other people, a handicap that affects their interactions with others. This is often
offset with superior ability in other areas, e.g. ].

Asperger's Disorder should not be confused with ]. While the sociopath can become an excellent manipulator through observation of action-causing-reaction, the sociopath also has greatly diminished emotional reactions of his own, so nothing gets in his way from a psychological point of view.

Someone with autism, on the other hand, has very strong emotional responses, which will tend to interfere with any manipulative effects; in addition, they seem to have trouble with even the observational approach to human interaction. People with this syndrome may even have a lot of trouble with "pretending."

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