Disorder No More | The Scientist Magazine®
So officially, Asperger's syndrome is no more. But I can't help thinking that there is considerable conflation between high functioning autism and a rather different condition because of some gross similarities.
Or, as I often say, I don't have Asperger's but I am very sympathetic to those who do. I just don't "get" the social cues others grasp intuitively. But I have a very good intuitive grasp of scientific concepts.
As Daniel Dennett quipped, they have a name for my (almost) condition, but not it's opposite, because nobody expects "normal" people to be intuitively good at science.
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