Posted by Sigismund on March 31, 2008, at 21:38:19
In reply to Re: Aspergers Syndrome, posted by Dopamine123 on March 31, 2008, at 21:16:28
I read on Wikipedia that Hans Asperger's paper was not translated into English until 1991 by Uta Frith, which surprised me.
It's interesting to speculate on what having a euthansia/muder program in the background could do for your clinical observations and prognoses. Perhaps his patients were different to Kanners, or maybe not? Vienna in 1944. Oh my goodness.
>Asperger was convinced that many of the children he identified as having autistic symptoms would use their special talents in adulthood. He followed one child, Fritz V., into adulthood. Fritz V. became a professor of astronomy and solved an error in Newtons work he originally noticed as a child. Hans Aspergers positive outlook contrasts strikingly with Leo Kanner's description of autism, of which Asperger's is often considered to be a high-functioning form. In his 1944 paper, written during Nazi rule whose policies included killing mentally handicapped and socially deviant people, Asperger wrote:We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers.[2]
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