PayPal co-founder says workers with Asperger’s more effective than workers with MBA (xpost from GD)

[SheilaT]

6. Aha!

Are you an Aspie?

I also have to say that I, and the father of my Aspie son, are both somewhat loners. When that son was in pre-school, and the teacher fussed about his social isolation, all I could think was, "But he comes by this honestly!"

What's equally interesting is that son #2 is hyper social, as different from Aspie son as is possible. I will say, that if the second son had been born first, I wouldn't have been so slow at figuring out that the first had real issues. Oh, well. It has all worked out. The two sons are as different from each other as is possible -- in fact, the teachers at their very small private high school told me more than once they'd never known siblings as different from each other as these two were.

What I like the best about having these two very, very different children, is that I can better appreciate how completely different people can be, even when they are siblings. That's something I would not have understood had I only had one child -- with all honest and due respect to only children.