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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 inherent in mental illness. But also attached to it is a kind of admiration and envy and (among those who suffer from Asperger's) a kind of elitism, a sense of being one of the elect, in a world mainly peopled by neurotypicals.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Neurology & clinical neurophysiology

• Full title: American Normal
• Subtitle: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome
• Author: Lawrence Osborne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780387953076
• ISBN: 0387953078
• ID: 05248034
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 514 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 165 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2002

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