American Normal
The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome| By: | Lawrence Osborne |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780387953076 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780387218076 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2002 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.