American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome
ISBN-13: 9780387953076
ISBN-10: 0387953078
Addition ISBN: 0387218076, 9780387218076, 9780387953076, 0387953078
Author(s): Lawrence Osborne, Publisher: Copernicus, Copyright: 2002
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.