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American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome

By Lawrence Osborne (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Copernicus
Year
2002
ISBN
978-0-387-95307-6, 978-0-387-21807-6
DOI
10.1007/b97540
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3572543 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
224\235
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00
general; Personality & Social PsychologyScience

Description

Asperger's has never been clearly defined, bordering autism on one side and high intelligence and verbal eccentricity on the other. The disease is a kind of cultural lightning rod. First, it's a condition onto which we project the very real and well-founded fears of social isolation inherent in mental illness. But also attached to it is a kind of admiration and envy and (among those who suffer from Asperger's) a kind of elitism, a sense of being one of the elect, in a world mainly peopled by neurotypicals.

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