>> They interact with the world in ways that are a little
>> eccentric but which avoid those areas they find troublesome.
>> Most of them have relatively few friends in total but are
>> very sincere about the friendships they have.
>
>This is me all over, and indeed I suspect it characterizes
>a lot of us here on Conlang.>
That was my immediate thought too.
>OTOH I never had any of the OCD stuff.>
Nor I. Clearly, there is a continuum of difficulties, where the
extremes may require some kind of intervention-- but whether Modern
Chemistry is the answer remains very doubtful to me.
I am enough of a Freudian still to believe that one is probably better off
learning to live with/ capitalize on one's "differentness" than to try to
eliminate it.