oh i'm readin' A la recherche du temps perdu & a-drinkin cappucino on AMTRAK train 66 & Isti Mirant Stella! It's Halley's Comet! Wheeeeeee!

3 Comments:

Kat said...

Your an interesting person Has anyone told you that???
10:04 PM

Bob Merkin said...

No.
1:46 AM

Bob Merkin said...

You like my song?

Call Harriet and tell her her bestest school friend Bobby wants to see her again. She doesn't have to go to the Reunion, I probably ain't going (unless they agree to all my demands about the women).
1:49 AM

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Asperger's Syndrome

Asperger's Disorder is a milder variant of Autistic Disorder.

Both Asperger's Disorder and Autistic Disorder are in fact subgroups of a larger diagnostic category.

This larger category is called either Autistic Spectrum Disorders, mostly in European countries, or Pervasive Developmental Disorders ("PDD"), in the United States.

In Asperger's Disorder, affected individuals are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behavior in childhood. There are impairments in two-sided social interaction and non-verbal communication.

Though grammatical, their speech is peculiar due to abnormalities of inflection and a repetitive pattern.

Clumsiness is prominent both in their articulation and gross motor behavior. They usually have a circumscribed area of interest which usually leaves no space for more age appropriate, common interests.

Some examples are cars, trains, French Literature, door knobs, hinges, cappucino, meteorology, astronomy or history.

The name "Asperger" comes from Hans Asperger, an Austrian physician who first described the syndrome in 1944.