ASPERGER SYNDROME

ASPERGER SYNDROME… A WAY OF BEING

To begin, is important to know that Asperger is not a illness and that THEY ARE ASPERGERS, they don’t have Asperger or suffer by this.
The word asperger comes from an Austrian pedacician named Hans Asperger who first described the syndrome in 1944.
Asperger syndrome is part of the Autistic spectrum disorders. In asperger disorder affected individuals are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behaviour and childhood, their speech may sound peculiar and repetitive patterns for instance, a child with Asperger, may spend hours each day preoccupied with counting cars passing on the street or watching only the weather channel on television. Coordination difficulties are also common with this disorder.
they also have a circumscribed area of interest which may be; trains,cience,computers,cars,etc: for example, an asperger person interested on computers will learn everything about it even without academic degrees.

Asperger vrs Autism: there are some differences between them…

It is believed that in Asperger's Disorder
onset is usually later
outcome is usually more positive
social and communication deficits are less severe
circumscribed interests are more prominent
verbal IQ is usually higher than performance IQ (in autism, the case is usually the reverse)
clumsiness is more frequently seen
family history is more frequently positive
neurological disorders are less common
A child with Asperger's, for example, may spend hours each day preoccupied with counting cars passing on the street or watching only the weather channel on television. Coordination difficulties are also common with this disorder.

The common characteristics of Aspergers are:

Qualitative impairment in social interaction, as manifested by at least two of the following:

(1) marked impairment in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures to regulate social interaction

(2) failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level

(3) a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people (e.g., by a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people)

Lack of social or emotional reciprocity

Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as manifested by at least one of the following:

Socialization deficits

• Different from "typical" Autism
• Described as being "in OUR world, but, ON THEIR OWN terms"
• Preoccupied with own agenda
• Seldom interested in other's interests/concerns
• Lack effective interaction skills — not desire
• Unable to “read” others' needs and perspectives
• Frequently described as “odd” or selfish
• Naïve and lack common sense
• Lack understanding of human relations and rules of social convention
• Prosody-speech volume, intonation, inflection, rate-
is frequently deficient or unusual
• Excessively formal or pedantic language
• Concrete language rather than abstract
• Difficulty understanding humor
• Laugh at “wrong time” with jokes or interactions
• Hyper-verbal (highly developed vocabularies)
• Early years: repetitive phrases or language or stock phrases from memorized material.

To sum up, asperger people live in their own world and they’re happy in that way, many says that they live in a wrong world but maybe they live in our world with their own ideas. Now… if you meet an Asperger you know what to do.

Anonymous: “Don’t try to fix me… I’m not broken”.

Anonymous: “Don’t try to understand my way of being, just love me in this way”