perseveration

Durvasula added that "stubbornness could be viewed as a form of perseveration, again, an executive function in the brain."

During speech therapy, she often got stuck on a single word — a phenomenon called “perseveration,” Dr. Hirsch said.

Still, with Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell and Liz Phair as his “Inner White Girl” inspirations, Jackson writes songs that sting, his lyrics merging poetry and perseveration.

Instead, by a principle you might call the perseveration of enmity, a new population stepped in to take up the slack: mostly middle-class Protestants from other suburbs now mixing with ours at a new school.

All of the little details of depicting someone on the spectrum are just right: the struggle reading social cues, the extreme directness in expressing one's self that some find refreshing and others off-putting, the perseveration, the unerring ability to self-sabotage, ongoing need to ask for advice and feedback about handling various social situations since you don't have the tools to accurately assess them yourself.