Spent some time today talking with a guy at work who has it.
Fascinating conversation.
Anyone got any experience with it who wouldn’t mind sharing about it?
May 10, 2005
Asperger’s Syndrome
About Tony Brown
Spent some time today talking with a guy at work who has it.
Fascinating conversation.
Anyone got any experience with it who wouldn’t mind sharing about it?
Dark Matter 
May 11th, 2005 at 2:57 am
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html I found this site….
O.k. I think that answers a lot of questons about a kid I know they keep saying is ADHD, and I know he’s not.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:57 am
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html I found this site….
O.k. I think that answers a lot of questons about a kid I know they keep saying is ADHD, and I know he’s not.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:57 am
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html I found this site….
O.k. I think that answers a lot of questons about a kid I know they keep saying is ADHD, and I know he’s not.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:57 am
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html I found this site….
O.k. I think that answers a lot of questons about a kid I know they keep saying is ADHD, and I know he’s not.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:39 am
That describes a yet-undiagnosed 6 y.o. I know. Tony, remember my chatter poem? It’s about him.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:39 am
That describes a yet-undiagnosed 6 y.o. I know. Tony, remember my chatter poem? It’s about him.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:39 am
That describes a yet-undiagnosed 6 y.o. I know. Tony, remember my chatter poem? It’s about him.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:39 am
That describes a yet-undiagnosed 6 y.o. I know. Tony, remember my chatter poem? It’s about him.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:33 am
I used to take martial arts with someone who had something in that spectrum (Don’t know if it was asperger’s or autism though).
May 11th, 2005 at 2:33 am
I used to take martial arts with someone who had something in that spectrum (Don’t know if it was asperger’s or autism though).
May 11th, 2005 at 2:33 am
I used to take martial arts with someone who had something in that spectrum (Don’t know if it was asperger’s or autism though).
May 11th, 2005 at 2:33 am
I used to take martial arts with someone who had something in that spectrum (Don’t know if it was asperger’s or autism though).
May 11th, 2005 at 2:01 am
yeah, man
chris () works with kids with autism, a related disorder. He might be able to help, or something.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:01 am
yeah, man
chris () works with kids with autism, a related disorder. He might be able to help, or something.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:01 am
yeah, man
chris () works with kids with autism, a related disorder. He might be able to help, or something.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:01 am
yeah, man
chris () works with kids with autism, a related disorder. He might be able to help, or something.
May 10th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
You may or may not be interested in an article on slashdot (news for geeks). It links to an interview with someone who has Asperger’s Syndrome. Visit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/0124230&tid=95.
May 10th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
You may or may not be interested in an article on slashdot (news for geeks). It links to an interview with someone who has Asperger’s Syndrome. Visit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/0124230&tid=95.
May 10th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
You may or may not be interested in an article on slashdot (news for geeks). It links to an interview with someone who has Asperger’s Syndrome. Visit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/0124230&tid=95.
May 10th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
You may or may not be interested in an article on slashdot (news for geeks). It links to an interview with someone who has Asperger’s Syndrome. Visit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/0124230&tid=95.
May 10th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
I tutored a child with Asperger’s Syndrome for many years. Being a syndrome, it has a rather loose definition, and there are many combinations of symptoms one can have, while still being classified as having the Syndrome. Most striking with the boy I was tutoring were the following “symptoms”:
1) Obsessive compulsive about his hobbies. He’d throw himself entirely into a world of memorisation, soaking up all the facts about his hobby of choice. He’d be expressly puzzled to learn that the people around him could express interest in a thing without being similarly sponge-like in their memorisation of every detail that could be associated with it.
2) Though he had a great sense of humour, he had great difficulty with sarcasm. He just could not recognise it, and the tone had to be explained in full whenever used.
3) He had, and still has, terrible handwriting. He prints, and his printing skills are little better than those of a grade four student, even though he’s in grade nine now. He also still cannot draw; when he does draw people, they are two circles with four sticks (two arms, two legs) – no hands.
4) You needed to give him very explicit instructions. You couldn’t be vague about anything, or he would just skip out of the task. Only when given clear and concrete commands would he comply. Furthermore, you had to be ready to justify any command you gave, otherwise he’d see no use for it.
5) Socially awkward. He just had difficulty empathizing, or even sympathizing, with anyone. If someone else was hurt, their condition and the justification for it needed to be laid out in full, logically.
6) Despite his learning disabilities, he was a very bright kid, with a strong memory and the ability to recreate entire conversations on a whim. He also had a very active (one might even say incessant) imagination.
There were other nuances, but these are the basic, most striking symptoms I remember from working with him. Asperger’s is considered a mild form of autism, and it really was interesting to work with him. Hope that helps!
May 10th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
I tutored a child with Asperger’s Syndrome for many years. Being a syndrome, it has a rather loose definition, and there are many combinations of symptoms one can have, while still being classified as having the Syndrome. Most striking with the boy I was tutoring were the following “symptoms”:
1) Obsessive compulsive about his hobbies. He’d throw himself entirely into a world of memorisation, soaking up all the facts about his hobby of choice. He’d be expressly puzzled to learn that the people around him could express interest in a thing without being similarly sponge-like in their memorisation of every detail that could be associated with it.
2) Though he had a great sense of humour, he had great difficulty with sarcasm. He just could not recognise it, and the tone had to be explained in full whenever used.
3) He had, and still has, terrible handwriting. He prints, and his printing skills are little better than those of a grade four student, even though he’s in grade nine now. He also still cannot draw; when he does draw people, they are two circles with four sticks (two arms, two legs) – no hands.
4) You needed to give him very explicit instructions. You couldn’t be vague about anything, or he would just skip out of the task. Only when given clear and concrete commands would he comply. Furthermore, you had to be ready to justify any command you gave, otherwise he’d see no use for it.
5) Socially awkward. He just had difficulty empathizing, or even sympathizing, with anyone. If someone else was hurt, their condition and the justification for it needed to be laid out in full, logically.
6) Despite his learning disabilities, he was a very bright kid, with a strong memory and the ability to recreate entire conversations on a whim. He also had a very active (one might even say incessant) imagination.
There were other nuances, but these are the basic, most striking symptoms I remember from working with him. Asperger’s is considered a mild form of autism, and it really was interesting to work with him. Hope that helps!
May 10th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
I tutored a child with Asperger’s Syndrome for many years. Being a syndrome, it has a rather loose definition, and there are many combinations of symptoms one can have, while still being classified as having the Syndrome. Most striking with the boy I was tutoring were the following “symptoms”:
1) Obsessive compulsive about his hobbies. He’d throw himself entirely into a world of memorisation, soaking up all the facts about his hobby of choice. He’d be expressly puzzled to learn that the people around him could express interest in a thing without being similarly sponge-like in their memorisation of every detail that could be associated with it.
2) Though he had a great sense of humour, he had great difficulty with sarcasm. He just could not recognise it, and the tone had to be explained in full whenever used.
3) He had, and still has, terrible handwriting. He prints, and his printing skills are little better than those of a grade four student, even though he’s in grade nine now. He also still cannot draw; when he does draw people, they are two circles with four sticks (two arms, two legs) – no hands.
4) You needed to give him very explicit instructions. You couldn’t be vague about anything, or he would just skip out of the task. Only when given clear and concrete commands would he comply. Furthermore, you had to be ready to justify any command you gave, otherwise he’d see no use for it.
5) Socially awkward. He just had difficulty empathizing, or even sympathizing, with anyone. If someone else was hurt, their condition and the justification for it needed to be laid out in full, logically.
6) Despite his learning disabilities, he was a very bright kid, with a strong memory and the ability to recreate entire conversations on a whim. He also had a very active (one might even say incessant) imagination.
There were other nuances, but these are the basic, most striking symptoms I remember from working with him. Asperger’s is considered a mild form of autism, and it really was interesting to work with him. Hope that helps!
May 10th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
I tutored a child with Asperger’s Syndrome for many years. Being a syndrome, it has a rather loose definition, and there are many combinations of symptoms one can have, while still being classified as having the Syndrome. Most striking with the boy I was tutoring were the following “symptoms”:
1) Obsessive compulsive about his hobbies. He’d throw himself entirely into a world of memorisation, soaking up all the facts about his hobby of choice. He’d be expressly puzzled to learn that the people around him could express interest in a thing without being similarly sponge-like in their memorisation of every detail that could be associated with it.
2) Though he had a great sense of humour, he had great difficulty with sarcasm. He just could not recognise it, and the tone had to be explained in full whenever used.
3) He had, and still has, terrible handwriting. He prints, and his printing skills are little better than those of a grade four student, even though he’s in grade nine now. He also still cannot draw; when he does draw people, they are two circles with four sticks (two arms, two legs) – no hands.
4) You needed to give him very explicit instructions. You couldn’t be vague about anything, or he would just skip out of the task. Only when given clear and concrete commands would he comply. Furthermore, you had to be ready to justify any command you gave, otherwise he’d see no use for it.
5) Socially awkward. He just had difficulty empathizing, or even sympathizing, with anyone. If someone else was hurt, their condition and the justification for it needed to be laid out in full, logically.
6) Despite his learning disabilities, he was a very bright kid, with a strong memory and the ability to recreate entire conversations on a whim. He also had a very active (one might even say incessant) imagination.
There were other nuances, but these are the basic, most striking symptoms I remember from working with him. Asperger’s is considered a mild form of autism, and it really was interesting to work with him. Hope that helps!
May 10th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
I tutored a child with Asperger’s Syndrome for many years. Being a syndrome, it has a rather loose definition, and there are many combinations of symptoms one can have, while still being classified as having the Syndrome. Most striking with the boy I was tutoring were the following “symptoms”:
1) Obsessive compulsive about his hobbies. He’d throw himself entirely into a world of memorisation, soaking up all the facts about his hobby of choice. He’d be expressly puzzled to learn that the people around him could express interest in a thing without being similarly sponge-like in their memorisation of every detail that could be associated with it.
2) Though he had a great sense of humour, he had great difficulty with sarcasm. He just could not recognise it, and the tone had to be explained in full whenever used.
3) He had, and still has, terrible handwriting. He prints, and his printing skills are little better than those of a grade four student, even though he’s in grade nine now. He also still cannot draw; when he does draw people, they are two circles with four sticks (two arms, two legs) – no hands.
4) You needed to give him very explicit instructions. You couldn’t be vague about anything, or he would just skip out of the task. Only when given clear and concrete commands would he comply. Furthermore, you had to be ready to justify any command you gave, otherwise he’d see no use for it.
5) Socially awkward. He just had difficulty empathizing, or even sympathizing, with anyone. If someone else was hurt, their condition and the justification for it needed to be laid out in full, logically.
6) Despite his learning disabilities, he was a very bright kid, with a strong memory and the ability to recreate entire conversations on a whim. He also had a very active (one might even say incessant) imagination.
There were other nuances, but these are the basic, most striking symptoms I remember from working with him. Asperger’s is considered a mild form of autism, and it really was interesting to work with him. Hope that helps!
May 10th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
social work stuff
I had a client who had it, really severely. He was stuck in doing everything in a particular order, with a particular pattern. For example, he knew how to go to the drug store to drop off a prescription for one medication, but when he got a new medication, he couldn’t go to the drugstore with it. Even though everything was exactly the same except for the name of the medication. Also, he only could understand people in terms of maps, so he was constantly asking people their exact addresses.
Lots of trouble with social signals and with bathing. He was very sweet though. Although he could only talk about characters on TV during sessions, which got a little boring.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
social work stuff
I had a client who had it, really severely. He was stuck in doing everything in a particular order, with a particular pattern. For example, he knew how to go to the drug store to drop off a prescription for one medication, but when he got a new medication, he couldn’t go to the drugstore with it. Even though everything was exactly the same except for the name of the medication. Also, he only could understand people in terms of maps, so he was constantly asking people their exact addresses.
Lots of trouble with social signals and with bathing. He was very sweet though. Although he could only talk about characters on TV during sessions, which got a little boring.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
social work stuff
I had a client who had it, really severely. He was stuck in doing everything in a particular order, with a particular pattern. For example, he knew how to go to the drug store to drop off a prescription for one medication, but when he got a new medication, he couldn’t go to the drugstore with it. Even though everything was exactly the same except for the name of the medication. Also, he only could understand people in terms of maps, so he was constantly asking people their exact addresses.
Lots of trouble with social signals and with bathing. He was very sweet though. Although he could only talk about characters on TV during sessions, which got a little boring.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
social work stuff
I had a client who had it, really severely. He was stuck in doing everything in a particular order, with a particular pattern. For example, he knew how to go to the drug store to drop off a prescription for one medication, but when he got a new medication, he couldn’t go to the drugstore with it. Even though everything was exactly the same except for the name of the medication. Also, he only could understand people in terms of maps, so he was constantly asking people their exact addresses.
Lots of trouble with social signals and with bathing. He was very sweet though. Although he could only talk about characters on TV during sessions, which got a little boring.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
social work stuff
I had a client who had it, really severely. He was stuck in doing everything in a particular order, with a particular pattern. For example, he knew how to go to the drug store to drop off a prescription for one medication, but when he got a new medication, he couldn’t go to the drugstore with it. Even though everything was exactly the same except for the name of the medication. Also, he only could understand people in terms of maps, so he was constantly asking people their exact addresses.
Lots of trouble with social signals and with bathing. He was very sweet though. Although he could only talk about characters on TV during sessions, which got a little boring.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
i think has it, and works with a man who does, he thinks. it’s totally fascinating.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
i think has it, and works with a man who does, he thinks. it’s totally fascinating.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
i think has it, and works with a man who does, he thinks. it’s totally fascinating.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
i think has it, and works with a man who does, he thinks. it’s totally fascinating.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
i think has it, and works with a man who does, he thinks. it’s totally fascinating.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
My experience with people with Asperger’s is that people with it (and it is often mis-diagnosed) are a little odd and socially awkward. They are very bright and sociable, unlike others with autistic spectrum disorders, but they miss a lot of basic social cues and have trouble grasping the “big picture” in social situations.
Often in children it is hard to tell the difference between Asperger’s and Nonverbal Learning Disability, because of how it manifests in an academic setting.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
My experience with people with Asperger’s is that people with it (and it is often mis-diagnosed) are a little odd and socially awkward. They are very bright and sociable, unlike others with autistic spectrum disorders, but they miss a lot of basic social cues and have trouble grasping the “big picture” in social situations.
Often in children it is hard to tell the difference between Asperger’s and Nonverbal Learning Disability, because of how it manifests in an academic setting.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
My experience with people with Asperger’s is that people with it (and it is often mis-diagnosed) are a little odd and socially awkward. They are very bright and sociable, unlike others with autistic spectrum disorders, but they miss a lot of basic social cues and have trouble grasping the “big picture” in social situations.
Often in children it is hard to tell the difference between Asperger’s and Nonverbal Learning Disability, because of how it manifests in an academic setting.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
My experience with people with Asperger’s is that people with it (and it is often mis-diagnosed) are a little odd and socially awkward. They are very bright and sociable, unlike others with autistic spectrum disorders, but they miss a lot of basic social cues and have trouble grasping the “big picture” in social situations.
Often in children it is hard to tell the difference between Asperger’s and Nonverbal Learning Disability, because of how it manifests in an academic setting.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
My experience with people with Asperger’s is that people with it (and it is often mis-diagnosed) are a little odd and socially awkward. They are very bright and sociable, unlike others with autistic spectrum disorders, but they miss a lot of basic social cues and have trouble grasping the “big picture” in social situations.
Often in children it is hard to tell the difference between Asperger’s and Nonverbal Learning Disability, because of how it manifests in an academic setting.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
I have to leave to go to the doctor’s but I’ll be back to talk about this tonight — have some observations and want to know whether I’m on track.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
I have to leave to go to the doctor’s but I’ll be back to talk about this tonight — have some observations and want to know whether I’m on track.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
I have to leave to go to the doctor’s but I’ll be back to talk about this tonight — have some observations and want to know whether I’m on track.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
I have to leave to go to the doctor’s but I’ll be back to talk about this tonight — have some observations and want to know whether I’m on track.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
I have to leave to go to the doctor’s but I’ll be back to talk about this tonight — have some observations and want to know whether I’m on track.
May 10th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
my ex has it, though i don’t know THAT much about it…
May 10th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
my ex has it, though i don’t know THAT much about it…
May 10th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
my ex has it, though i don’t know THAT much about it…
May 10th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
my ex has it, though i don’t know THAT much about it…
May 10th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
my ex has it, though i don’t know THAT much about it…