Explaining how autistic person treats a group

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Hi everyone,

I've got a little problem here 'cos I help with an Explorer scout group

Within the group there is two people who up to now I've seen as the main people within that group. One of them is the main ESL, but quite a lot of the time he can't commit, so a lot of the time the other person is what I would see as the "main" leader when the other person isn't around.

Now I recently had an issue regarding how the group was being run as for a year now it has seemed to be very disorganised, and it appeared the person who I saw as the main leader wasn't doing very well at organising it.

It turns out that this main leader didn't see himself as the main leader at all, as he was a leader somewhere else and had too much on his plate to be the main leader here already and he was expecting us all to work together on an equal footing.

I'd always assumed he was the main leader as most of the kids treat him as the main leader, when the other ones away and really look up to him, there is another two leaders as well as me (I'm a section assistant), but they've not been with the group as long as him so logically I figured out that given all the evidence he would be the main person in charge of running the group.

I know this is an Asperger's trait, to seek out one main leader when working in a group, and not necessarily always get the right main leader, as I've seen it on a leaflet somewhere (I think it was from WAspS - Warrington Aspergers Society - or something) mainly in a teaching situation where the person with AS will seek out the main teacher as the leader, but not necessarily understand the hierarchy properly within the group, but as it's Explorers and Leaders it's seen as a similar type of hierarchy.

I'm quite sure WAspS got this information from some other leaflet dealing with hierarchy and peer relationships with Asperger's but I can't seem to find that information anywhere. I'm trying to find it or find a way of explaining to this person how I see hierarchy from an Asperger's perspective but can't seem to figure out how to tell him, or the website that explains to people about how people with AS deal with hierarchy.

Does anyone know where of a location on the net for this type of info?

Thanks