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ADAM FEINSTEIN, Editor of LOOKING UP, spoke to Dr LORNA WING about her meeting in London with Professor Hans Asperger in the late-1970s (extract)

From Volume 4 Number 5

ADAM FEINSTEIN, Editor, LOOKING UP:  I was fascinated to learn that you met Hans Asperger. You say that you and he agreed to differ on the relationship of Asperger's syndrome to autism. You, of course, consider the syndrome to be part of the autistic spectrum. What did Asperger tell you he thought about this? Did he even accept the idea of a spectrum?  And did he feel that Asperger's syndrome was an entirely different disorder?

Dr LORNA WING:  That meeting was a long time ago, although I still treasure the memory.  He did think his syndrome was different from autism. He thought autism was a developmental disorder due to pathological effects on the brain, whereas he saw his "syndrome" as a special type of personality, although it was due to the way the brain was structured in the course of development.  The curious thing is that he always pointed out the similarities between the two, despite believing they were different ...

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