Have you read Le Guin's "Vaster than Empires and More Slow"? One of the main characters in that story is an empath who had been autistic--the autism was a desperate attempt to keep out the overwhelming emotions of everyone around him. (This isn't a spoiler, it's stated at the beginning of the story.)
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Date: 2003-08-05 06:40 am (UTC)