Why can an individual with AS have an academic brain but have disorder with the social brain.?

Answer 1

I offer you three responses, which you can combine if you wish.

1. Most of us are imbalanced in some way or other in our development. You speak of a relatively extreme example but we all have some unevenness. Some people are very skillful socially, others averagely so, and so on down to autism at the other end of the scale -- and it doesn't correlate one way or the other with academic ability.

2. If a child is nurtured to value their academic skills -- academic success is reinforced by love and acceptance -- they will use the "muscles" of latent academic ability within them. If they are derided socially whatever they try to do to get liked and accepted, they are at risk of letting those parts of their brain atrophy. Childen can be so cruel.... put a child who is already somewhat gauche among a group of "normal" children who then make fun of him/her and that child may come to believe that all attempts at social success will fail -- a self-fulfilling prophecy.

3. If a child who is particularly highly sensitive emotionally grows up in an overstimulating environment, e.g. noisy, surrounded by boisterous kids and ruffians.... they may retreat emotionally into a private world to protect themselves from what they perceive as too much social input. Only love can reverse this, I think you will find, c.f. the film "The Rain Man".

Answer 2

IQ versus EQ

Scientists now believe that there are two categories of intelligence, not necessarily coexistent, although the second rarely occurs when the first is not present at a reasonable level. The intelligence quotient (IQ) measures what you could call the "technical" intelligence (three-dimensional thinking, etc.) while the Emotional quotient evaluates a more functional sort of "intelligence" (social skills, self-confidence, creativity, initiative, sense of humor, etc.).
Some people are brilliant mathematicians and fail miserably when they need to keep a social conversation. Others have an average IQ but can make an impression by their "spirits".
The good news, for the first, is that IQ rarely improves (it can on the other hand get much lower due to an illness or an accident), while the second can be improved at some extent by practice.

P.S. By "AS I understood The grade "A". The Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a chronic rheumatic disease that affects the spinal column, but it doesn't affect the social brain.

Answer 3

Because we have learned that some certain centers of the brain are devoted to specific functions. Presumably, those centers dealing with social skills in a person with Asperger's are somehow impaired, while those dealing with higher cognitive functioning are not.

Answer 4

AS is a disorder of the brain that is passed over from generation to generation and it cant be stopped.If its in there you will get it

Answer 5

yes

they can be highly intelligent and have lots of knowledge. but due to the "triad of imparments" they can find it difficult to socialise, and understand social rules etc.