Further, communication issues may be present. For example, the Mayo Clinic says that a child with Asperger's might hear his or her name many times but refrain from responding, as if he or she hasn’t heard what you’ve said. He or she may have difficulty following directions and either may not speak or experience a delay in speaking. And the child may refrain from eye contact.
Another symptom can be seen in the form of solo conversations. The child may talk to himself or herself. This can be alarming to those who are not familiar with this health condition, opening the door to bullying by other children who have not been taught how to interact with a child with Asperger’s.
The thing is that the person with this condition won’t understand this difficulty in social interaction. For example, Kirsten Lindsmith writes about her experience in her blog, saying that her experiences were just that -- her experiences.
“My experience of life was the only one I knew, and so to me things like sensory processing problems, a lack of eye contact or a blindness to nonverbal cues were simply the reality of the world,” Lindsmith writes.“I had no idea that I couldn’t read everyday body language very well because I didn’t know what I was missing.”
In fact, Lindsmith says she learned appropriate body language by studying it. “As a teen, before I knew anything about autism, I believed that body language consisted of things like smiling, shrugging the shoulders or pointing to indicate an object. I had no idea that I wasn’t using body language properly or that I wasn’t reading the body language of others,” she writes. “I thought I was already doing it! I understood obvious gestures, like a wave hello or an angry frown. (But) I never realized what I was missing because I didn’t know what there was to miss in the first place.”