Rainman

Whilst I was calmly doing something, no doubt my Accenture emails, my wife was gently seething and curdling in the corner of the room. At the height of this recent fit of French domestic rage, she turned round to me and said, "if you were even just a shade more intelligent then you would be autistic". This was the nicest thing she has ever said to me, and I think it annoyed her even more when I told her that I took that as a complement and sought to give her a kiss.

Therefore I was fascinated by a recent article in the Economist (April 18th) about autism and extraordinary intelligence called "Genius Locus". Apparently you need three things to be autistic; impairments in social interaction and communication with other people (a "theory of mind") and RRBIs or "restrictive and repetitive behaviours". The other good news for neurotypicals (i.e. non autistic people) is that anyone can become autistic in anything if they practise the repetitive action for a mere 10,000 hours. Anyway I will not bore you further with this, it was just my musing for the day.