Asperger's Syndrome Research Paper

Asperger’s syndrome is a disease that is similar to autism in certain ways and can be considered an autism spectrum disorder. However, the main difference between asperger’s and full blown autism is that there is usually no cognitive or linguistic deficiency related to asperger’s; instead, patients may have severe difficulties in social interactions and all forms of non verbal communication. Often, this goes hand in hand with physical clumsiness and fixations with certain objects, patterns or concepts. People with asperger's tend to use language atypically; taking things in the literal sense and can have difficulty understanding non-precise forms of communication. Finally, patients of asperger’s have limited ability to empathize with others. …show more content…
This is significant because the problem was unsolved for over 300 years and that too using mathematical theorems he had no access to at the time. There are numerous examples akin to this scattered throughout the book that prove her superior intelligence, such as being able to reason out the password that Blomkvist set to the “palm” pda.
Time and again it is shown that she gets stuck on certain things that appeal to her and can't get out of it mentally; stated specifically is the fact that she gets fixated on certain topics and will exhaust all books on the issue until attaining mastery and then never reading them again. As for the most significant criteria, severe social impairment, she differs from the textbook example in the sense that her interactions are impaired because, in a way, she chooses it to be. Lisbeth understands what social norms and customs are from a cognitive standpoint but not from an emotional one, lacking the ability to empathize with others. She gets what the customs are but the why’s don't make sense, so while she is able to imitate a completely normal social interaction, she feels nothing; and usually finds no sense in maintaining the