It has been suggested that impaired ToM also affects self-consciousness and introspection (Frith and Happé 1999). I was talking to Corey, a teenager with Asperger’s syndrome, about the ability to ‘mind read’. He said, ‘I’m not good at working out what other people are thinking. I’m not sure what I’m thinking now.’ Thus there may be a pervasive difficulty in thinking about thoughts and feelings, whether they are the thoughts and feelings of another person or oneself.
