When the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome was officially struck from the medical books in 2013, the Asperger’s Society of Ontario was faced with a curious branding problem. Historian Edith Sheffer has expanded on it in a new book, Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna. For the Asperger’s Society of Ontario, and others like it, this is a crisis. Autism and Asperger’s advocates are accustomed to weathering the storms of awkward public attention. In an informal poll of its members, prompted by the Nazi revelations, the ASO found that 86 preferred to say they have Asperger’s Syndrome, while 19 preferred to say they are autistic.

Source: National Post May 09, 2018 22:07 UTC