On apparent selfishness

It sometimes seems people with Aspergers come across as selfish. In many cases I don't think we are any more selfish than anyone else, it's just that we tend to see the world just from our own fixed point of view and find it very difficult or even impossible to imagine someone elses' point of view. This is where the 'social imagination' problem comes in.

A psychologist once told me people with Aspergers are egocentric and I said to him is this the same as being selfish and he said no but it does mean we feel the world sort of revolves around us because this is the only way we know. It is very hard to be flexible. I often have NO IDEA how other people feel or think. It's not that I don't want to know how they feel, I do.

People with Aspergers are also often accused of having no empathy. Again I don't think this is true. We do I think care about others but often just don't know how to show it.