The Born On a Blue Day is a book about a character named Daniel Tammet. This character has an extremely rare form of autism named Asperger’s syndrome, which gives him unimaginable metal powers. Asperger’s syndrome is a form of autism, which is considered a high functioning form of autism.
Obsessive compulsive disorder plays a great part with Asperger’s syndrome. It is also subcategorized as being a part of a pervasive developmental disorders, in which it involves delays in many basic skills. Some of those skills would be the inability to socialize with others, use of imagination and as well as inability to communicate in general. Children with Asperger’s syndrome are at greater risk in developing other conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, …show more content…
There has been a significant change in Asperger’s syndrome since Hans Asperger’s first discovered this disorder in the 1940’s. Hans himself thought this was an exclusively males only disorder. He described Asperger as a high functioning form of disorders. Over the past 20 years this syndrome is no longer described as the stereotypical males’ disorder but some of the stereotypes constructed by Asperger are still valid.
Stereotyping autism disorders have become less common and are being more recognized in the media. Another great example is in the year 1988, autism was recognized in the movie Rain man, were Tom cruise played Charlie Babbitt as a selfish, egocentric character, who takes the death of his father without any signs of sorrow and only pays attention to messages that are relevant to his business of importing fancy sports cars. In the end of the movie he develops a loving relationship with his brother and learns to listen to other people. These are few examples how autism has taken part of the media and is described in different forms of what we know today.
Overall, I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in researching or want better understanding in the abilities of the human mind. This book gives great guidance into learning autism, and some of the traumas a person might face who craves
Obsessive compulsive disorder plays a great part with Asperger’s syndrome. It is also subcategorized as being a part of a pervasive developmental disorders, in which it involves delays in many basic skills. Some of those skills would be the inability to socialize with others, use of imagination and as well as inability to communicate in general. Children with Asperger’s syndrome are at greater risk in developing other conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, …show more content…
There has been a significant change in Asperger’s syndrome since Hans Asperger’s first discovered this disorder in the 1940’s. Hans himself thought this was an exclusively males only disorder. He described Asperger as a high functioning form of disorders. Over the past 20 years this syndrome is no longer described as the stereotypical males’ disorder but some of the stereotypes constructed by Asperger are still valid.
Stereotyping autism disorders have become less common and are being more recognized in the media. Another great example is in the year 1988, autism was recognized in the movie Rain man, were Tom cruise played Charlie Babbitt as a selfish, egocentric character, who takes the death of his father without any signs of sorrow and only pays attention to messages that are relevant to his business of importing fancy sports cars. In the end of the movie he develops a loving relationship with his brother and learns to listen to other people. These are few examples how autism has taken part of the media and is described in different forms of what we know today.
Overall, I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in researching or want better understanding in the abilities of the human mind. This book gives great guidance into learning autism, and some of the traumas a person might face who craves