Asperger's and Genius Share Same Characteristics

A famous psychiatric, Michael Fitzgerald from Trinity College, Dublin has claimed that many geniuses in the fields of science, politics and the arts have achieved success because they had Asperger's syndrome(AS), a mild form of Autism.
Michael Fitzgerald said that lots of geniuses showed autistic traits, such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, George Orwell and H G Wells. According to the diagnosis after death, these people had Asperger's syndrome: Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus, Andersen Hans Christian and Kant Immanuel.
At a meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Academic Psychiatry, Fitzgerald argued that the gene linked to Asperger's syndrome were the same as those associated with creativity and genius. "Psychiatric disorders can also have positive dimensions. I'm arguing the genes for autism/Asperger's, and creativity are essentially the same. We don't know which genes they are yet or how many there are, but we are talking about multiple genes of small effect. Every case is unique because people have varying numbers of the genes involved."
"Asperger's sufferers can be so successful mainly because they are more focused and persistent, they do not get distracted and they are not interested in outside society." he added.
Michael Fitzgerald compared the charateristics of 1600 autism patients to some geniuses and found they have many traits in common. His book "Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the World" was pubilshed at the end of last year.
But there are also different opinions. Amanda Batten, of the national autistic society, said it is important to avoid stereotypes of people with autism as geniuses. Anyway, it is estimated that for every 10,000 people, there are 60 to 120 people with autism, and the percentage of genius is definitely less than that.
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Behavior Characteristics of Autism - Is Your Child Suffering From Autism?

Is your child acting a little strange? Is he different from other children? Do you fear your child is suffering from Autism? If yes, it's high time you find out and save your child. Here is a list of behavior characteristics of autism. Go through it and find out if anything sounds and looks familiar. Children suffering from Autism usually:

• Do not reach developmental milestones on time. This means that they learn to crawl, walk, talk etc much later than usual.
• Do not talk. One of the physical characteristics of autism is that the child doesn't speak even after sixteen months, which is the extreme limit for a child to start speaking, at least a few words.
• Do not make eye contact at all. Autistic children do not look at you when you talk with them nor look at the object you are pointing at. They just look past you or the object you are trying to point out to them.
• Do not have or show any emotion, like smiling back or showing care when someone is crying out.
• Like to stay and be left alone. They take everything literally and do not usually understand jokes or naughtiness of other kids. They are very straight forward.
• They forget newly learned skills like speaking new words or some physical actions taught to them.

A child suffering from autism might not have all of the above mentioned behaviors. If you find your child has any one of the behaviors, then its time to take action.

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