“Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You mig...” — Simon Baron-Cohen Quote

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

People with autism flourish in domains where the information is consistent and predictable, and struggle most in domains where the information is ambiguous and unlawful.

It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or mind reading, you've just got more time to devote to understanding the world by systemizing.

With the right support and reasonable adjustments, autistic people make wonderful employees.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

I have no difficulty with career duality!

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.