Here’s the Autistic Adults
July 23, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Researchers pulling back the veil on adult autism read the headline in a Vancouver Sun article on July 20th. Noting that autism, and in particular Asperger Syndrome, is being recognized in more and more adults, the article cites these examples:
A doctor who got “upset when people didn’t say what they mean” and who seems to have a sort of finger and nose “tic.”
A man who “organized his wife’s CDs by the composer’s date of birth and fell asleep on the floor during social events.”
These might just seems “quirks” and “eccentricities” and then a third example:
An office clerk who, “obsessed with …read more




