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2006-09-04 15:35:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
It is a disorder that is like mild autism. It is caused by chemicals in the brain (although we don't exactly know how). People who have it have trouble interacting with others socially. They have a hard time understanding what nonverbal cues mean (facial expressions, tone of voice, etc) It has nothing to do with intelligence but sometimes people may seem to be of low intelligence since their social skills are poor. People with asperger's may seem odd, innapropriate, or uncomfortable in social settings such as school, or other groups. Sometimes they get fixated on an idea or behavior and find it uncomfortable to stop.
2006-09-04 15:45:37 · answer #1 · answered by cgl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
High functioning autism. Asperger’s shares with "classic" or Kanner's autism a severe and sustained impairment in social interaction, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour and interests. But people with Asperger’s do not have the significant delays in language, cognition, self-help skills or adaptive behaviour that are typical in autism; they are often physically clumsy and awkward. As with Kanner's autism, the disorder is lifelong and no complete cure is known.
Until 1990, Aspergers was not known or diagnosed in America. These kids were just labeled "a bit off."
Somewhere between 60 - 85% of those on the "autism spectrum" are diagnosed with aspergers. (7 out of 2,000)
2006-09-04 17:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by Smart Kat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a neurological disorder that impairs communication skills. People who have this are not able to interact well with others....they may be perceived as 'shy' or 'weird'. Often they will have a very obessive or specific area of interest....like collecting a certain object or baseball statistics or something like that.
2006-09-04 15:39:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it starts when the brain is developing in the infant and it basically makes the child develope certain parts of the brain not accosiated with social interaction very rapidly people with spergers are often extremely intellectual genuises it was thought einstein was effected by this disease, look up autistic savants
2006-09-04 15:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by the holy divine one 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is closely related to Autism.
2006-09-04 15:44:23 · answer #5 · answered by walkerhound03 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try uptodate, webmd, or pubmed
2006-09-04 15:38:00 · answer #6 · answered by mollyneville 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What they said.
2006-09-04 15:41:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋