The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome by Anthony Attwood

Author:Anthony Attwood [Attwood, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2006-09-27T14:00:00+00:00

We claim – not from theoretical reasons, but from experiences with many children – that this boy’s positive and negative features are two naturally necessary, connected aspects of one really homogeneously laid out personality. We can also express it like this: the difficulties, which this boy has with himself as well as with his relationship to the world, are the price he has to pay for his special gifts. (Asperger 1938, p.2)

The interest can be either a barrier or bridge to social contact, but can also be used constructively at school and in psychological therapies or become the basis of a successful career. When one considers the attributes associated with the special interests, it is important to consider not only the benefits to the person with Asperger’s syndrome, but also the benefits to society. There have been suggestions that successful individuals in the sciences and arts have personalities that resemble the profile of abilities associated with Asperger’s syndrome (Fitzgerald 2005; Ledgin 2002; Paradiz 2002).

Hans Asperger considered that:

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