2012-02-01
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“ Under the rules in place today, any nerd, any withdrawn, bookish kid, can have Asperger syndrome. ”
Benjamin Nugent: I Had Asperger Syndrome, Briefly, from the New York Times.
This is one of a series of posts at the NY Times about the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the fifth (DSM-5 for short), which narrows the definition of autism (and Asperger syndrome) significantly. This particular post is well worth a read. (Thanks, Molly.)
