If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and waddles like a duck, it's not necessarily Asperger's, as Bonnie pointed out earlier! I've wondered occasionally if I fit the bill; but, although I'm often thoughtless, it's because I'm absent-minded, not because I lack empathy. Maybe a lot of us musos are like this, and spend so much time inside our own heads that we don't always connect with the folks in the rest of the world? I think the ability to write sensitive or funny songs as you do, Harvey, shows an awareness and understanding of others, the ability to out yourself in someone else's head that's lacking in autism and, to a lesser degree, in AS.

Steve