Asperger'sin a sentence
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There's a spectrum of Asperger's, from mild to severe.
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Asperger's = a mental disorder most commonly associated with undeveloped social abilities
- In third grade, my teacher informed me that I have Asperger's syndrome. (source)
- Several exhaustive psychological studies were done on Halliday following his death, and his obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, or from some other form of high-functioning autism.† (source)
- People said he was borderline Asperger's, and the picture seemed intent on underscoring the point.† (source)
- Watson-Crick was known to the students there as Asperger's U. because of the high percentage of brilliant weirdos that strolled and hopped and lurched through its corridors.† (source)
- Asperger's syndrome, he thought.† (source)
- By 2002, he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a less severe form of autism that made socializing difficult but also provided unique insights into the world.† (source)
- While none had agreed on what the former problem actually was—each had a different theory, ranging from Asperger's to OCD—all of them had concluded that the two problems were related.† (source)
- He does an excellent job in the back office despite suffering from Asperger's syndrome.
- It was a book—more like a textbook, actually—about autism and Asperger's.† (source)
- By that standard, most people could be said to have Asperger's.† (source)
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- I think your father might have Asperger's.† (source)
- I thought she had Asperger's syndrome or something like it.† (source)
- Later, I asked my mom, "What is Asperger's syndrome?† (source)
- I'm sorry, but Asperger's patients do not generally set fire to their parents.† (source)
- Asperger's U.† (source)
- What if he doesn't have Asperger's?† (source)
- Asperger's is a developmental disorder.† (source)
- You can have Asperger's and still function.... As she spoke, I flashed on something she had said earlier.† (source)
- I read profiles of-people with Asperger's who were prodigies in music or mathematics, but I learned that they were as rare as prodigies among the general .† (source)
- Some people with Asperger's had low IQs, while other, even more severely autistic people—like the Dustin Hoffman character in Rain Man—were regarded as geniuses in particular subjects.† (source)
- While others might freely make those same choices, my father—like some people with Asperger's— seemed to have been forced to live a life with these choices already predetermined.† (source)
- The difference between Asperger's and autism could sometimes be summed up by the following: A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing.† (source)
- I know I'm only a student, but I spend a lot of my lab hours working with children who have Asperger's ...I've seen it up close, and I've also had the chance to meet a number of the adults my professor had interviewed.† (source)
- Instead, children with Asperger's or autism were often lumped with the retarded or the shy, and if they weren't institutionalized, parents were left to comfort themselves with the hope that one day their child might grow out of it.† (source)
- For example, Asperger's syndrome.† (source)
- For Fredi, it was a break from the unpredictable joys and daily strain of raising one boy with autism and another with Asperger's.† (source)
- If you read the clinical descriptions of patients diagnosed with Asperger's, there are things that seem to fit Lisbeth very well, but there are just as many symptoms that don't apply at all.† (source)
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