AS Grows Up; Recognizing Adults in Today's
Challenging World
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a draft and has not had its references completed, but that "we" felt the
immediacy of the need to issue it both for information and as a challenge to
the AS community to accept everything known about AS, including the good,
bad and ugly.
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originally appeared on the BRASS website at
http://www.co-brass.com/page2_purple.html
titled, "What is AS."
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Asperger Syndrome Grows Up
Recognizing Adults in Today's Challenging World
Roger N. Meyer
Aleta Root
Linda Newland
Copyright 2003, All Rights Reserved
Outline
Chapter I - Introduction
Official Criteria for Asperger Syndrome
Basic Characteristics
Impaired Social Relationship
Anger, frustration, and Dealing with Difficult Emotions
Aggression and "Behavior Problems"
Passivity, Non-Responsiveness and Anger
Navigating the Social Mine Field
Impaired Communications
-Impaired Theory of Mind combined with Processing Delays
-Unusual Speech
Expressive Speech Issues
-Stilted Speech
-Saying too Little
-Humor
-Proving One's Point to Get it Right
Impaired Make-Believe Play
-Parallel Play
-Repetitive and/or Age-inappropriate Play Activities
-Memory
Peculiar Patterns of Intellectual Activities
Repetitive Phenomena of Rituals
-Comforting Issues
Chapter II - Commonly Associated Conditions
Chapter III - Traits by Age
Asperger Syndrome and Telling the Truth
The Good Side of Telling the Truth
"Good Withholding; Bad Withholding"
Self Abuse
Chapter IV - AS in the Family
A Challenge to US National Autism Organizations
Domestic Violence and Abuse
Dysfunction in AS Families in the Absence of Outright Violence
A Note about "Successful AS Families"
Control
Both Parents on the Spectrum
Single Parenthood
Chapter V - Adult Diagnosis and the Aftermath
The Non-Curious and the Deniers
Connection between Self-Determination and Adult Employment
Entire Article:
AS Grows Up - Recognizing Adults Today with AS
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Roger N. Meyer
"...of a different mind"
Disability Advocacy, Representation
and Comprehensive Case Management
18162 East Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97233
Phone: 503-666-2776
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