He believes Sean's condition should have been picked up in childhood. He is of normal intelligence, but he feels very, very guilty because of a lot of nasty things that have happened to him. If his condition had been detected a lot earlier then he would not be that ill or that dependent on services as he is now. Sean is now gradually being weaned off the cocktail of psychiatric drugs he had been taking. Asperger's syndrome was identified by Hans Asperger - an Austrian psychiatrist in 1944.
Autistic children have no desire to interact.
Children with Asperger's syndrome do want to mix, but do not have the social skills to do so effectively. That is more than three times higher than the incidence in the general population. The other great unknown is how many people in prison may have undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome. Please use your browser arrow to return to the article index.