Asperger syndrome

• Abnormal nonverbal communication, such as problems with eye contact, facial expressions, body postures, or gestures
• Failure to develop peer relationships
• Being singled out by other children as "weird" or "strange"
• Lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests or achievements with others (a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people)
• Markedly impaired expression of pleasure in other people's happiness
• Inability to return social or emotional feelings
• Inflexibilty about specific routines or rituals
• Repetitive finger flapping, twisting, or whole body movements
• Unusually intense preoccupation with narrow areas of interest, such as obsession with train schedules, phone books, or collections of objects
• Preoccupation with parts of whole objects
• Repetitive behaviors, including repetitive self-injurious behavior

Physical, emotional, and mental evaluations are usually performed to rule out other causes.

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