Just a quick drive-by comment here as I don't have time for the entire topic but as for the above statement in the report? NO SHIT. I have described, and complained of, this hyper awareness my whole life (or at least when I was mentally mature enough to put it into words). 11 years ago I was dx'd with Asperger's, and I still had to drill it into my (though very experienced and intelligent) psychiatrist's head that I was very much aware of others emotions. I have zero problems with facial expressions, tones of voice or plays on words. In fact, I often catch someone's state of emotion before they are aware of it themselves, usually through what I call the "energy" pouring off of them. I can read all species of animal in the same way, boggling even experienced handlers minds when I am able to do something with some random animal with ease.
It's taken me a lifetime to filter a lot of this shit out and I'm pretty darn good at it now.
