I think he does have a sensitivity to clothes. Everything has to be really big on him.

When he was here on Mother's Day, I reached out and touched him gently a couple of times. Each time he said "OUCH!" I KNOW I didn't hurt him.

I had to crate my dog because she's so exuberant. He wouldn't come in until I did. He didn't like to touch or hold Jerry's ferret because of the fingernails. He thought his antics were funny, but he didn't want him anywhere near him.

Playfully and jokingly, my son held him tight a couple of times and told him to breath, to work it through. But I noticed that Max would settle down quite a bit after that. He wouldn't talk quite as incessantly for a while.

If they know he has Asperger's I doubt that they'll tell me. But my son knows that I catch on to things quickly.