American Normal The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome /

• Main Author: Osborne, Lawrence (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2002.
• Subjects: Science.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Science, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.

Asperger's has never been clearly defined, bordering autism on one side and high intelligence and verbal eccentricity on the other. The disease is a kind of cultural lightning rod. First, it's a condition onto which we project the very real and well-founded fears of social isolation inhere...

Table of Contents:

• Asperger and I
• Little Professors
• The Last Puritan
• Rain Men
• Diagnosing Jefferson
• Autibiographies
• The Poetics of Medicine.