I am friends with a very odd individual on my PSN account who offen gets very angery and expresses his anger with messages of upscene language.When I delete him, the next day he offers his condolences and blames his outbursts on this Asberger's syndrom.
From what I understand it's a mental disorder that plagues and individual with the inability to interact with other people properly.
I always learn somthing new here but i'm a little uncertain of its actual existance.
I'd have to agree. But Aperger Syndrome doesn't seem to be making my friend what you would normaly call "Autism" he just randomly gets mad and annoyed at the smallest sight of discomfort. And he tends to make up stories A LOT.
If I say Hi too much he'll start yelling like a mad man ( through messages )
If I don't respond to a message he sends me he'll start calling me "names" and things like that. And you can't joke around with him, i learned that the hard way!
I know at least three people with Asperger's. But... Well, the symptoms that individuals with the syndrome display does vary, I've never seen any of them have an anger outburst...
Asperger's, I think, is mainly about having a hard time getting attached to others...
Eh, as to your question, I know it exists. Try googling it and read some articles about it if you're interested in getting to know more.
The short answer would be that since things like Asperger's are diagnosed on a behavioral basis, it's difficult to say whether there is an "organic" problem or it's "in one's head", so to speak, or whether these are one and the same issue.
The literature I have read on the matter indicates that there is something worth diagnosing but the cause (aetiology) may not matter so much as management. That is to say that in a large number of cases there is no intrinsic, fundamentally irreversible change in functioning so maybe putting kids with Aspergers through the disability system does more harm than good, because it can become a matter of identity politics.
We have had users here chuck a wobbly and then blame it on Asperger's syndrome. For the record, while you may or may not have Asperger's and we will strive to be understanding, we enforce a certain standard and there are no excuses for antisocial behavior.
Actually they can talk your ear off if you let them get started on the right topics and seem somewhat interested... But getting emotionally attached to others, like finding a partner, caring about friends being hurt... It's not impossible, just more difficult than for the average person.
While I don't know too much about Asperger itself, I did know someone with 'regular' autism. He'd never gotten mad as far as I know... so I suppose it differs per person. And perhaps it's something other than Asperger, who knows? It's not that uncommon for psychological things to come in a pack.
The difference between Autism and Asperger's (as far as I understand) is that Aspergers is a "highly functional" or rather mild/moderate form of Autism. From personal experience it seems that some child psychologists insist there is a real difference here, in that one type is functional and the other just isn't.
Typically (and I just realised that nobody has actually provided a defintion), ASDs describe the behaviors in which social development somehow becomes impaired, such that affected people find it difficult/impossible to relate to normal modes of social functioning. It is characterised by poor motor coordination, impaired speech and language skills, extreme rigidity and fixation of thought (and later in life the development of rigorous rituals and habits), and should be considered if development suddenly seems to "regress" around the age of, say, about 3 years of age. One feature that appears in some autistics is savantism, i.e. some inexplicably incredible talent beyond human comprehension e.g. infallible memory, the ability to do crazy math etc.
As to how exclusive the diagnostic entity should be is controversial: many have become accustomed to talking of ASDs as a class apart, whereas in my experience social workers who have experience with autistic children are fond of saying "there's a bit of autism in all of us."
Currently this is being fitted in with broader speculation on the nature of cognitive development- that somehow we've been getting our idea of "normal, idealised" development all wrong and that perhaps there is much more to be gained from understanding how "dysfunctional" characteristics aren't, well, necessarily dysfunctional.
