What can be the consequences of Asperger's syndrome?

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what are the symptoms?

Answer 1

Asperger syndrome is often considered a high functioning form of autism. People with this syndrome have difficulty interacting socially, repeat behaviors, and often are clumsy. Motor milestones may be delayed.

Hans Asperger labeled this disorder "autistic psychopathy" in 1944. The exact cause is unknown. More than likely, an abnormality in the brain is the cause of Asperger syndrome.

There is a possible link to autism, and genetic factors may play a role. The disorder tends to run in families. A specific gene has not been identified.

The condition appears to be more common in boys than in girls.

Although people with Asperger syndrome often have difficulty socially, many have above-average intelligence. They may excel in fields such as computer programming and science. There is no delay in their cognitive development, ability to take care of themselves, or curiosity about their environment.

People with Asperger syndrome become over-focused or obsessed on a single object or topic, ignoring all others. They want to know everything about this topic, and often talk about little else.

Children with Asperger syndrome will present many facts about their subject of interest, but there will seem to be no point or conclusion.

They often do not recognize that the other person has lost interest in the topic.

Areas of interest may be quite narrow, such as an obsession with train schedules, phone books, a vacuum cleaner, or collections of objects.

People with Asperger do not withdraw from the world in the way that people with autism withdraw. They will often approach other people. However, their problems with speech and language in a social setting often lead to isolation.

Their body language may be off.

They may speak in a monotone, and may not respond to other people's comments or emotions.

They may not understand sarcasm or humor, or they may take a figure of speech literally.

They do not recognize the need to change the volume of their voice in different settings.

They have problems with eye contact, facial expressions, body postures, or gestures (nonverbal communication).

They may be singled out by other children as "weird" or "strange."

People with Asperger syndrome have trouble forming relationships with children their own age or other adults, because they:

Are unable to respond emotionally in normal social interactions

Are not flexible about routines or rituals

Have difficulty showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people

Do not express pleasure at other people's happiness

Children with Asperger syndrome may show delays in motor development, and unusual physical behaviors, such as:

Delays in being able to ride a bicycle, catch a ball, or climb play equipment

Clumsiness when walking or doing other activities

Repetitive behaviors, in which they sometimes injure themselves

Repetitive finger flapping, twisting, or whole body movements

Many children with Asperger syndrome are very active, and may also be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Anxiety or depression may develop during adolescence and young adulthood. Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and a tic disorder such as Tourette syndrome may be seen.

Most doctors look for a core group of behaviors to help them diagnose Asperger syndrome. These behaviors include:

Abnormal eye contact

Aloofness

Failure to turn when called by name

Failure to use gestures to point or show

Lack of interactive play

Lack of interest in peers

Symptoms may be noticeable in the first few months of life. Problems should be obvious by age 3 years.

Physical, emotional, and mental tests are done to rule out other causes and look more closely for signs of this syndrome. The team that will see your child includes a psychologist, neurologist, psychiatrist, speech therapist, and other professionals who are experts in diagnosing children with Asperger syndrome.

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Answer 5

There is a very substantial amount of literature accessible on and from the internet, and the best advice I can give you is set up a Google alert to receive alerts about web-pages uploaded and/ or otherwise activated each day containing the word 'asperger', because that way you'll capture all variations of the label, for some people use a capital A but others do not, some people give it an apostrophe s but others don't and some give it an s without an apostrophe. You'll even find such variations appearing in single articles, so there is very little consistency, except 'asperger'.



The best sources of 'plain English' definitions of the condition and characteristic symptoms are the several public and voluntary sector providers of health, welfare, and educational services to people that have the condition or wonder if they have the condition and parents, carers, and friends of such people. I understand that websites of such service providers in Eire and more highly regarded than those of providers in the UK, although I find the latter sufficient for all my needs.



It has long been regarded as an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Even, Hans Asperger, the person it is named regarded it as such. And the scientific community are so convinced of it that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has omitted the term Asperger's Syndrome and diagnostic characteristics from its latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and relies solely on ASD as its descriptor and diagnostic characteristics.



One important aspect of this change is that incumbents of only a very mild degree of severity of the condition would not eligible under the new designation for health, welfare and educational benefits to assist them to cope with it, because it is now only classified under the severity scale of (1) mild; (2) moderate; and (3) severe. This has caused considerable concern to pre-existing incumbents with the very mild degree of severity fearing they would lose their benefits, but this has been resolved by the APA committing itself to continue awarding those benefits for the life-span of the extant incumbents.



It has also long been considered a genetically transmitted disease, and, last year, in Australia, an autism research team using data from 3,346 individuals with ASD and 4,165 of their relatives found 237 genetic markers in 146 genes and related cellular pathways that either contribute to an individual developing ASD or protect them doing so; and from that developed a test for predicting genetically transmitted ASD with an accuracy of 70%: which is an impressive result for the early stages of that type of research.



Many incumbents of ASD manage to cope very well with the condition, indeed, a goodly number do it so well they live their entire lives without even being diagnosed as having it, and a very large number of them in these categories do not regard it as a 'disease' but merely as a 'difference', and are very concerned that the advent of genetic testing will result in foetuses that test positive being summarily aborted without even considering they could develop into these categories of incumbent. There is an internet community website dedicated to such incumbents, called Aspies For Freedom, who lobby for protection of such foetuses and against abusive therapies. The largest internet community website dedicated to the 'worlds' of 'auties' and 'aspies' is very appropriately called Wrong Planet as many of them sometimes feel they have indeed been born on the wrong planet.



The condition has always generally been regarded as 'life-long' and 'incurable', and that its defects are due to its incumbents' neural pathways and synaptic junctions being differently 'wired' to those of neurotypicals (people who do not have the condition), and, certainly, the 'incurable' element of this traditional perception of the disease has been based on the notion that people's brains are 'hard-wired', that is, incapable of being changed, but with the discovery that this is incorrect and the brain is malleable, or plastic, new therapies and treatments, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Reprogramming are becoming increasingly effective and popular forms of 'cure' of many of the individually symptomatic manifestations of the disease, making it easier for incumbents to cope with the worst hardships and problems they would otherwise from due to the condition, though these are in such embryonic states of research and development that dogmatically asserted boundaries between science and quackery are still very blurred.