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5 Post author: CuSithBell 22 May 2011 11:59PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 23 May 2011 01:17:18AM 9 points [-]

Social skills are skills -- a learned body of knowledge. You can fail to develop a body of knowledge for all sorts of reasons, not limited to a specific spectrum of neurological dysfunctions.

Comment author: CuSithBell 23 May 2011 01:20:39AM *  1 point [-]

True, though I'd hesitate to characterize social skills as "a learned body of knowledge" precisely.

Perhaps I should have been speaking of "social inelegance", rather than autism? Have I conflated unjustly?

Comment author: komponisto 23 May 2011 06:10:04AM 2 points [-]

Perhaps I should have been speaking of "social inelegance", rather than autism? Have I conflated unjustly?

Yes!

Comment author: CuSithBell 23 May 2011 03:13:11PM 2 points [-]

I've changed it, and I'm open to changing it again, or scrapping it.