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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 1955702" data-attributes="member: 27012">That's why I suggested brutal honesty and a lack of control over how your character says things.  You can be good, reliable, heroic, and mean well but still come off offending people simply by always telling them what the character is thinking without taking any effort to understand how that brutal honestly will be taken by those hearing it.If you want a detailed model for what I'm talking about, do some web searches for Asperger's Syndrome.  This is a good overview of the social skill problems it can cause:<a href="http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism/asdiagnosis.html#interaction" target="_blank">http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism/asdiagnosis.html#interaction</a>Many people with Asperger's are brilliant, creative, reliable, mean well by what they say and do, and could even be heroic but simply lack the intuitive ability to understand how they are being perceived by others.  This creates a social awkwardness that's often misinterpreted by other people as rudeness or insensitivity.  Please note that I am not trying to disparage anyone who has Asperger's here.  In fact, I'll bet that there are more than a few in this hobby.  One of the people in my group has a son with Aspberger's who plays D&D and even GMs.  I simply think it might be a good model for a character with social skill problems without going down the typical route (suggested by several others here) of being gross and physical unappealing.</blockquote>

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