<br>Just a brief add, I note that on Feb. 25, I posted a note about the genetic aspects of autism and Asperger's. While I will not comment on the possible connection between these conditions and mirror neurons (as I have not studied it) I will note that out of the 5-10 genes in OMIM which have been linked with autism/Asperger's, some of them appear to be involved in aspects of neuron structure.
<br><br>So it seems reasonable to me to assume that individuals with these characters might be viewed as "running on significantly different hardware" and thus they are "different". Of course in a decade or so we will all be carrying little gene profile cards documenting our unique differences and so it will not be that novel. But for now it seems interesting as we learn about the variants in humanity that walk among us.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>