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  • Controversy Regarding Asperger’s Syndrome

    Controversy Regarding Asperger’s Syndrome

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    A year after Leo Kanner published his findings on autism, Austrian physician Hans Asperger described “a particularly interesting and highly recognizable type of child” in his 1944 article ‘Autistic Psychopathy’ in Childhood. Like Kanner, he presented case studies describing the following four children’s clinical characteristics and commonalities. Fritz V. ‘A highly unusual boy who showed…

  • I Dwell in Possibility – 6 Potential Faces of ASD

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    Retrospective diagnosis is the act of identifying an illness after the death of a person using modern knowledge, methods and disease classifications. Historians and psychiatrists have studied the behavior of the following individuals, using their biographical information, and determined them to be on the spectrum. Albert Einstein (Scientist & Mathematician) Einstein didn’t speak until the…

  • The Evolution of Autism – Part V: The Woman Behind the ‘Spectrum’

    The Evolution of Autism – Part V: The Woman Behind the ‘Spectrum’

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    In 1956, psychiatrist Lorna Wing gave birth to her daughter Susie. In the following years, Wing and her husband, psychiatrist John Wing, became increasingly worried as Susie showed a ‘lack of communication and social interaction, lack of pretend play and repetitive behavior.’ Neither parent, despite their medical training, could recognize what was occurring with their…