Why Did Asperger’s Stop Being a Diagnosis? Asperger's syndrome was named after an Austrian pediatrician, Hans Asperger, who in 1944 described four children who were highly intelligent but socially awkward and physically clumsy. However, he did not coin the term. It was a British psychiatrist, ...
Psychiatrist Alex Wills, MD, added that a partner who consistently fails to celebrate your wins might have narcissism, sociopathy, or Asperger's Syndrome. "Interestingly, with Asperger's, it is usually not that they don't love or care for you; it has more to do with them having narrow in...
Hollywood's self-described "Black shrink" opens up about wrestling with a recent learning disorder diagnosis, learning to swim in his 50s, and reassessing the childhood traumas he once joked about.
I am pretty sure Sherman would qualify for the canine diagnosis of an introverted personality. Ask any veterinary psychiatrist (yes, they exist) and they will tell you that dogs suffer from almost every psychiatric disorder that afflicts humans—all except one: schizophrenia. If we played the qu...
As a parent, have you asked the school to help your child only to have the school dismiss or deny your request? What did you do? Most parents seem to believe that “no” means “no” forever. They give up. Other parents view a “no” from the school in the same light as the den...
(thus I could skip stuff I’d already mastered to work ahead – loved it when I could do that because what they had me do). If they did that, I was great to have in class: I’d work quietly, wouldn’t gossip, wouldn’t be a disruption, and some even used my pedant...