An Aesop's fable about why Aspies do not talk much

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The Owl and the Birds

AN OWL, in her wisdom, counseled the Birds that when the acorn first

began to sprout, to pull it all up out of the ground and not allow it

to grow. She said acorns would produce mistletoe, from which an

irremediable poison, the bird- lime, would be extracted and by which

they would be captured. The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed

of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good

to them. And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted

that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers

which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves. The

Birds gave no credence to these warning words, but considered the Owl

to be beside herself and said that she was mad. But afterwards,

finding her words were true, they wondered at her knowledge and deemed

her to be the wisest of birds. Hence it is that when she appears they

look to her as knowing all things, while she no longer gives them

advice, but in solitude laments their past folly.