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The stunning revelations in Gable Tostee’s psychiatric report.

He went online and asked for advice on how to make friends.

“It’s difficult to make actual friends without knowing people already, since I eventually have to reveal the fact that I’m a hermit.”

He liked to record everything he did.

“I have motion detection cameras in my house, call recording on my phone, and sometimes even leave my phone on record in my pocket for nights out in case I forget what happens.”

Gable Tostee was "emotionally distant" Via Facebook.

“I feel amazing after rooting a hot girl. It’s a huge confidence boost.”

Now it has been revealed in a report in The Courier Mail that Gable Tostee’s most likely has Asperger's syndrome.

A day after Gable Tostee was found not guilty of the murder of the 26-year-old New Zealander Warriena Wright it has been revealed that concerns had been expressed about Tostee years earlier from a leading psychiatrist.

The psychiatrist, who gave evidence at his 2006 trial, said that Tostee was "relatively divorced" from the "consensus of realities that govern the lives of normal people" and that he would need "ongoing help" navigating his way in the world.

According to The Courier Mail, in 2004 Tostee had been the mastermind of a fake ID racket, along with two friends. By the time police raided the three friends who ran it in late 2004, the business had brought in $30,000 for the trio.

Upon his arrest police found a perfect copy of a forged $50 note Tostee had reproduced.

When he went to court Tostee was labelled the “mastermind” by the Crown prosecutor and was said to be “partially autistic”, reports The Courier Mail.

He was said to be suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder but had exceptional skills in art and drafting.

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The judge said Gable Tostee “has extraordinary talents that must be harnessed in such a manner to ensure the products of his abilities are not illicit.”

The court at the time heard from Dr Ian Curtis who said in his psychiatric report, that Tostee was a “partially disabled person” who in all probability suffers from Asperger’s syndrome.

“Tostee presented as a socially distant, emotionally estranged person with whom it was impossible to establish a clear-cut rapport,” the court was told.

“Dr Curtis noted that Tostee had no regular social life and was not equipped to deal in a discriminating manner with people whom he met socially.”

“Dr Curtis … did identify a primitive magical obsessive content and a tendency to be severely introverted and fantasy ridden so as to be relatively divorced from the knowledge of the consensus of realities that govern the lives of normal people,” the court was told.

It was claimed that Tostee’s extreme Obsessive Compulsive Disorder included “magical rituals”.

“Magic rituals” is the compulsion to do something over and over again.

According to the website OCD-UK sufferers are beset by intrusive bad thoughts. They try to dispel them by performing rituals that are often time-consuming and involve linking actions or events that could not possibly be related to each other, like the old phrase “step on a crack will break your other’s back.”

The psychiatrist said Tostee with his Aspergers and OCD would need "ongoing help".

“He is at a huge disadvantage in the normal social world."

“That has included all of his schooling where he has been marginalised and disaffiliated.

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“It includes his present and future life as an adult where he is going to require people of good will to surround him and advise him, and to employ him if he is going to have any chance at all of leading a productive life.”

Gable Tostee with Warriena Wright on the night she died.

A second medical expert also gave evidence at that 2006 trial. The Courier Mail reports that Dr Derek Matthew who saw Tostee between 2001 and 2006 gave evidence that he was constantly having to “reassure the patient”

“Dr Matthew concedes that he is frequently not sure what plane Tostee is thinking on and that there is an abstract quality at times in his communication.

“(He) states that … from an early age it has been observed that Tostee has above average intellect but at the same time is handicapped by behavioural problems that come partly under the umbrella of Asperger’s syndrome with very marked obsessional compulsive and anxiety features.”

Years later his behavioural problems would culminate in the tragic death of a much-loved 26-year-old New Zealander.

Throughout his trial online commenters have analysed Tostee's off behavioural “quirks”.

His reaction to her death, his strange comments during the now infamous recording he took of the night and his re-appearence on Tinder a day after Wright's death were all considered bizarre. Also his comment to his father hours after he had sex with Warriena Wright, hours after she fell from his apartment plunging to her death 14 stories below, with Tostee not even going to check to see whether she had miraculously survived.

“Why does this shit happen to me?” he said to his father as he called for help.

“I didn’t ask for this. I wasn’t doing anything wrong. I just invited the girl over.”

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