My brother has Aspergers. It has only been in recent years that there was any kind of help for these kids. One of the things that helped my brother growing up was for my mother to cut out pictures of facial expressions from magazines, and to glue them to paper. She would use them, along with books for children, to teach "this is what a mad face looks like..." etc. She would explain every nuance of social interaction such as how close to stand next to people, point out that he needed to wait for a pause in conversation before talking himself, that when people turned away from him or started to walk away he could not follow after them trying to continue engaging in conversation, and how to only say a few things on his favorite subject, rather than rattle on and on about it without giving someone else a turn to talk.
Gosh, it was excruciating watching this learning process take place for him. It took many, many years for him to get better at all of that. But this was without any therapy like there is now.
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