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However, Busztin does not mention Hans Asperger's name, and Asperger makes no reference to this episode even after the war, even though it could have helped him establish anti-Nazi credentials. [59] According to Czech, Asperger may have been aware of this Jewish patient, but he did not take an active role in protecting him, and more importantly ...
Asperger was unaware of Kanner's description published a year before his; [17] the two researchers were separated by an ocean and a raging war, and Asperger's descriptions were unnoticed in the United States. [10] During his lifetime, Asperger's work, in German, remained largely unknown outside the German-speaking world. [1]
Lorna Wing's February 1981 publication of the paper "Asperger's Syndrome: A Clinical Account" [220] greatly increased awareness of the existence of Hans Asperger's autism work. [308] [309] [48] Wing summarised Asperger's autism syndrome, and made two challenges to points he had made. She also provided six case studies of her own, and much ...
The man credited with developing our idea of an autism spectrum and Asperger's syndrome—Hans Asperger—conducted his research in Nazi Vienna
Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, is a diagnostic label that has historically been used to describe a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. [5]
He has talked in public a number of times about having “Asperger’s syndrome” (a term that fell out of favor as researchers learned the extent of Hans Asperger’s collaboration with the Nazi ...
Autistic psychopathy is a term that Austrian physician Hans Asperger had coined in 1944 in order to label the clinical condition that was later named after him: Asperger syndrome, which has nothing to do with psychopathy in the sense of an antisocial personality disorder.
Greta Thunberg has revealed how being diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome has shaped her approach to the climate crisis, saying “it’s helped me see through a lot of the bullshit”.