The other day I was speaking with Jan, the mother of a 14 year-old boy who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (AS). She explained to me how the diagnosis finally made sense of her son's sometimes quirky behavior. For years, she had looked into different things: dyslexia, written expression disorder, ADHD and anxiety, but none of these really fit. After learning about AS, she finally had her "ah-ha" moment; it all made sense.
Her son had many of the classic symptoms of AS: he had a couple...
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