After almost three decades in this business (and being married to a special-ed teacher for almost as long), I have concluded that in most cases if you show me an uber high-avoidance-bid pilot, I will show you a high-functioning autistic. They have been counseled by chief pilots, HR types, and union reps until all are blue in the face, and all to no avail...because the high-AB pilot is simply incapable of changing their behavior. I am by no means defending it, but at the end of the day I feel a (slight) degree of sympathy for them because it would suck to go through life that socially clueless...and it likely will cost them their job and/or marriage at some point.