American Normal The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome /
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 inhere...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
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2002.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XVI, 224 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780387218076 |