Asperger’s Syndrome: Stages of Life Asperger’s has many names but only one meaning: “a severe developmental disorder characterized by major difficulties in social interaction, and restricted and unusual patterns of interest and behavior.” Asperger’s was first brought into light in the 1940’s by an Austrian pediatrician named Hans Asperger. Hans Asperger was best known for his studies on early child mental disorders. Hans Asperger conducted research on four boys that appeared to have autism. The patterns that were shown in the four boys were: unable to make friends, one-sided conversation, no empathy was presented, able to absorb special interest and clumsy movements. Hans followed one of the children, Fritz V., into adulthood and found out he was a professor of astronomy and was able to solve Newton’s …show more content…
Later in Hans live he decided to open a school for children suffering with autistic psychopathy with Sister Victorine. Since it was close to the end of World War ll, Asperger’s school was bombed and killed Sister Victorine and destroyed most of his studies on autism. His work did not become recognized until the 1980’s because of the destruction. While most of his work was done in Germany, there were not a lot of people from the United States that were unable to read his research. While the same research was also being done in the United States by Leo Kanner, but his work was primarily concerned with autistic. Once Hans Asperger passed away, they found that he was suffering from Autism as well but his was slightly different, which is why this condition is called Asperger’s syndrome. Asperger’s syndrome affects all age groups