| Description |
1 online resource (111 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front cover ; Asperger Meets Girl: Happy Endings for Asperger Boys ; FOREWORD BY HUGH JONES ; PREFACE ; CONTENTS ; 1 What Problem Am I Trying to Solve Here?; 2 A Nerd's Eye View of Human Sexuality; 2.1 Idea 1: The space of possibilities; 2.1.1 Plotting some points in the space; 2.1.3 Swinging; 2.1.2 Old-fashioned romance; 2.1.4 Student fantasy; 2.1.5 Coming up roses; 2.1.6 Slippery when wet; 2.2 Idea 2: The conventional games; 2.2.1 The conventional male game; 2.2.2 The conventional female game; 2.2.3 And?; 2.2.4 Revisiting the extracts; 2.3 Idea 3: Relationship space |
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2.3.1 Graphs of relationship space2.3.2 How much do you love me? Quantitative attributes of relationships; 2.3.3 Subjectivity of relationships; 2.3.4 Intermission; 2.3.5 Defining the centre; 2.3.6 Why can't people just say what they mean?; 2.3.7 The extracts revisited (again); 3 Things to Try; 3.1 The collusive relationship; 3.1.1 Why so slow?; 3.1.2 What does this 'collusion' involve?; 3.1.3 Where does it get you?; 3.2 How sex joins on to real life; 3.2.1 Sensuality; 3.2.2 Attention; 3.2.3 Power; 3.3 Strategic preparation; 3.3.1 Get a body; 3.3.2 Get a persona; 3.3.3 Get a look |
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3.3.4 Your fellow men3.3.5 Platonic women; 3.3.6 Good persistence and bad persistence; 3.4 Tactical preparation; 3.4.1 Tactical goals; 3.4.2 Times and places; 3.4.3 Your fellow men (again); 3.4.4 Look (again); 3.6 No, actual contact; 3.6.1 Confidence; 3.6.2 Decisiveness; 3.6.3 Herself in particular; 3.6.4 Colluding again; 3.5 Contact; 3.5.1 Staring and personal space; 3.5.2 The art of apology; 3.5.3 Conversation; 3.5.4 Your feelings, considered from a tactical point of view; 3.5.5 The last mile; 4 Afterword; 5 Appendix: Some supplementary thoughts; 5.1 Theoretical context; 5.1.1 Philosophy |
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5.1.2 Psychoanalysis5.2 Cartesian diagrams of the space of possibilities; 5.2.1 Old-fashioned romance; 5.2.2 Swinging; 5.2.3 Student fantasy; 5.2.4 Coming up roses; 5.3 Suggested para-academic research; 5.3.1 Para-academic?; 5.3.2 Numbers for the graphs; REFERENCES |
| Summary |
Men with Asperger's Syndrome, young and old, experience difficulty with social interaction, which can be a stumbling block when it comes to getting a girlfriend. Here is a book that demystifies the enigma of 'relationships' by explaining everything in Asperger-friendly terms (some of them mathematical, naturally). Asperger Meets Girl provides hope for all hopeless wooers by offering a choice of three interrelated abstract models for understanding boy-girl relationships. And, to make life easier, these models are presented in graph form where possible. The book also gives valuable practical tip |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 111) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- Sexual behavior
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Asperger's syndrome -- Social aspects
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Humour.
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Coping With Disability.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007035090 |
| ISBN |
9781846427565 |
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1846427568 |
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128178186X |
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9781281781864 |
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9786611781866 |
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6611781862 |
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