Date:         Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:58:32 -0500
Reply-To:     Mary <mlhoward@avalon.net>
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From:         Mary <mlhoward@AVALON.NET>
Subject:      Re: Dealing with Germans
Comments: To: Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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No, actually, Hans Asperger never really did have Asperger's syndrome; he was a pediatric physician from Vienna who wrote the first paper on the issue back in 1944.  Unfortunately, with the war going on at the time (and Asperger was active in protecting autistics from harm) the paper never received the attention it deserved and was only translated and made widely available in 1991.   Thus he was influential today in allowing those with milder forms of asperger's syndrome to be able to hold jobs, many of which are in computer programming.

The famous paper on the subject took so long to translate because it was in German...

-Mary
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gerhard Hellriegel 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:38 AM
  Subject: Re: Dealing with Germans


  On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:40:49 GMT, Randy <rwcartwright50@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:


  Hi Randy,
  if Joachim has it, does that mean, that Asperger has no longer his
  syndrome?

  Gerhard