Asperger's autism or better known as Asperger syndrome, is a form of autism spectrum disorder that shows the same characteristics as autism in people.
It is a brain developmental disorder that affects areas of communication and social interaction.
However, this condition is slightly more focused that other ASDs in the sense that linguistic and cognitive development is not affected to the extent of most ASDs or even full blown autism.
The main symptoms of this condition as described by the original founder of the disease is the fact that children who have been affected by this will display a lack of non verbal communication, they have limited to even no empathy with their peers and often seen as physically clumsy.
Like most of these developmental disorders, the symptoms and signs of the condition will appear quite early in stages of infancy and childhood, often well before they children turn three.
It is classified as a pervasive developmental disorder, which means there is no one symptom to describe the condition, rather an entire host of symptoms that appear sporadically or even as a single trend within a period of time.
One of the more obvious symptoms is the inability for social and physical interaction within children affected by the disease.
As mentioned earlier in the article, the biggest and most dangerous factor within Asperger's autism is the lack of empathy that these children have for their peers when placed in social situations.
They lack the basic elements and functionaries of social interaction; they are unable to make or even maintain friends and do not have the emotional tools to maintain any sort of long term or even short term relationships.
This is because they are unable to be spontaneous and maintain any sort of eye contact, non verbal skills like handshakes, facial expressions , posture and any form of gesture that can and might contribute to them overcoming social limitation and initiating contact.
The funny thing about this condition is that those afflicted with AS are not normally classified as solitary or even withdrawn, they are able to verbally communicate quite well - but maybe not in the traditional sense.
They often concentrate on a single topic or rattle on oblivious to the other person.
They are unable to read things like body language and facial expressions and base their actions completely within themselves.
This self centred almost ego centric symptom is also quite common to ASD's and AS - culminating in a social awkwardness that does not allow them to easily maintain relationships.
They are also subject to the same repetitive and restrictive behaviour that most people with ASD and even autism experience.
These sort of behaviours will appear as the child gets older and becomes more fixated with interests - there is a level of intensity to their interest that can sometimes be disturbing.
The good this is that those with AS are able to develop language and cognitive skills without any obvious and apparent delay, which separates it from being a full blown ASD.
It is a brain developmental disorder that affects areas of communication and social interaction.
However, this condition is slightly more focused that other ASDs in the sense that linguistic and cognitive development is not affected to the extent of most ASDs or even full blown autism.
The main symptoms of this condition as described by the original founder of the disease is the fact that children who have been affected by this will display a lack of non verbal communication, they have limited to even no empathy with their peers and often seen as physically clumsy.
Like most of these developmental disorders, the symptoms and signs of the condition will appear quite early in stages of infancy and childhood, often well before they children turn three.
It is classified as a pervasive developmental disorder, which means there is no one symptom to describe the condition, rather an entire host of symptoms that appear sporadically or even as a single trend within a period of time.
One of the more obvious symptoms is the inability for social and physical interaction within children affected by the disease.
As mentioned earlier in the article, the biggest and most dangerous factor within Asperger's autism is the lack of empathy that these children have for their peers when placed in social situations.
They lack the basic elements and functionaries of social interaction; they are unable to make or even maintain friends and do not have the emotional tools to maintain any sort of long term or even short term relationships.
This is because they are unable to be spontaneous and maintain any sort of eye contact, non verbal skills like handshakes, facial expressions , posture and any form of gesture that can and might contribute to them overcoming social limitation and initiating contact.
The funny thing about this condition is that those afflicted with AS are not normally classified as solitary or even withdrawn, they are able to verbally communicate quite well - but maybe not in the traditional sense.
They often concentrate on a single topic or rattle on oblivious to the other person.
They are unable to read things like body language and facial expressions and base their actions completely within themselves.
This self centred almost ego centric symptom is also quite common to ASD's and AS - culminating in a social awkwardness that does not allow them to easily maintain relationships.
They are also subject to the same repetitive and restrictive behaviour that most people with ASD and even autism experience.
These sort of behaviours will appear as the child gets older and becomes more fixated with interests - there is a level of intensity to their interest that can sometimes be disturbing.
The good this is that those with AS are able to develop language and cognitive skills without any obvious and apparent delay, which separates it from being a full blown ASD.
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