MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- You may have seen teenager Greta Thunberg's speech about climate change at the United Nations earlier this week. However you felt about it, you could feel the passion in her voice ...
For millennia, certain people have exhibited patterns of social behavior and communication that fall outside so-called "normal" parameters. At various points, these individuals have been classified in ...
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the April/May 2010 issue of On the Minds of Moms. Statistics have been updated to reflect current data. One subject that is on the minds of moms (and ...
What is this Asperger's Syndrome, anyway? After many years of knowing that I was different, I finally learned why when I read Wired magazine's "The Geek Syndrome," which described an autism spectrum ...
Dr. McGee answers the question: 'What Is Asperger Syndrome?' Oct. 23, 2008 -- Question: What is Asperger syndrome, and how does it differ from autistic disorder? Answer: Asperger disorder is one of ...
What we now call autism has surely been a part of the human condition for as long as human beings have existed. But the way different cultures understand, talk about and treat people who exhibit the ...
In the book "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna," Edith Sheffer writes about the doctor who first diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome. Sheffer tells NPR's Michel Martin how Hans ...
Anthony Hopkins is calling bull on his wife’s armchair diagnosis. The acclaimed actor, 87, balked when his wife, Stella Arroyave, suggested he has Asperger’s Syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder on ...
Mr. Shore, a double major in music and accounting, was assigned a research project on a topic of his choosing for his “Physics of Music” course. But after finding some books in the library and doing ...
What is this Asperger's Syndrome, anyway? As I alluded to in my previous post, Neurological Disorder or Natural Diversity?, after many years of knowing that I was different, I finally learned why when ...