Note: This book has been re-pulished as "Workplace Neurodiversity", with terminology updated to current usage.

With a concise and compact format, this manual is written primarily for busy managers of IT, engineering, and technical staff. It is also for HR managers, and technical workers who want to understand Asperger characteristics that they will commonly find in themselves and peers.

Starting from the perspective of diversity, every individual is unique. We can not pigeon-hole or stereotype technical and scientific workers. What we can notice is that many of the characteristics noted by Professor Asperger are well suited to technical careers. We also find that people with these characteristics are often drawn to technical work. This has resulted in a higher concentration of people with these traits in the technical fields.

From the perspective of neurodiversity, we can take a positive view. Rather than seeing Asperger characteristics as an unwanted difference from some ideal “norm”, we can look at their benefits in the workplace. Rather than thinking of Asperger's Syndrome as a disability that one either has or has not got, we can see it as merely at the further end of the normal range of human personality traits. Most of us have some Asperger characteristics, and we can see them as an asset, as long as our managers have some Asperger awareness.