Don’t know if this was discussed before, but I believe Nikita has Asperger’s.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx1dGFmcml0aHxneDozNTg2YmZhZjE3ZGRhZGVk(of Harro L.:)
He was said to be an inveterate ‘liar’. He did not lie in order to get out of something that he had done — this was certainly not the problem, as he always told the truth very brazenly — but he told long, fantastic stories, his confabulations becoming ever more strange and incoherent.
(of Ernst K.:)
He was never able to get on with other children. It was impossible to go to a park with him, as he would instantly get embroiled in fighting.
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Apparently, he hit or verbally abused other children indiscriminately. This had become more of a problem since he started school. He acted like a red rag to his class and was teased mercilessly. However, rather than keeping away from the other children, he acted as a trouble-maker. For instance, he would pinch or tickle other children or stab them with his pen. He liked to tell fantastic stories, in which he always appeared as the hero.
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A crucial point which makes clear that the autistic personality type is a natuar entity is its *persistence over time*. From the second year of life we find already the characteristic features which remain unmistakable and constant throughout the whole life-span. Natually, intelligence and personality develop and, in the course of development, certain features predominate or recede, so that the problems presented change considerably.
Nevertheless, the essential aspects of the problem remain unchanged. In early childhood there are difficulties in learning simple practial skills and in social adaptation. These difficulties arise out of the same disturbance which at school age causes learning and conduct problems, in adolescence job and performance problems, and in adulthood social and martial conflicts.
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The is one situation, however, in which the eye gaze of these children becomes extremely expressive; their eyes light up when they are intent upon some malicious act, which is then perpetrated in an instant.
And interest in programming and anime, obviously.