Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships

Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships

Ashley Stanford

Language: English

Pages: 288

ISBN: 1843107341

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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relationship in depth. Those are just possibilities and it is only a simple visualization exercise. It could mean a thousand different things, but it may be revealing enough to give you helpful insights. THE FULL REALIZATION 67 Of course, you may want to follow this up under the care of an experienced counselor or therapist. Check out the final chapter of this book: “Help! Where to Look.” CHAPTER 4 First Diagnostic Criteria Impaired Social Interaction A. Qualitative impairment in social

to convince me that I don’t need to do anything. He says, “You can even go to sleep,” as if that would make it easier. Usually I’m too tired to explain to him why this reasoning makes me sick to my stomach. There is also the tendency to view sex as a disconnected act, as something that is entirely separate from other events of the day. This is due to “weak central coherence” (not seeing things as interconnected) and a tendency to misunderstand body language. A common example: Non-AS female: Angry

crumbled. “It’s killing me!” Certain tasks are so phenomenally difficult for him, and from what I can see, he can be crushed under a load that I don’t even recognize as a load. Perhaps the heavy burden of the give-and-take issue can be partly lifted by an awareness of how the AS traits raise the difficulty level of daily activities. In order to see if a particular activity is difficult for my husband, we use a rating scale of 1 to 10. If an activity is easy and enjoyable, it is a 1; an activity

Stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms (e.g. hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements). 4. Persistent preoccupation with parts of objects. C. The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. D. There is no clinically significant general delay in language (e.g. single words used by age two years, communicative phrases used by age three years). E. There is no clinically significant delay in

that she “likes social chitchat,” but her definition may not be the world’s definition. She doesn’t mind being near it, but only if it is at a certain volume level, if it is about certain topics, and if she is the only one speaking. She doesn’t engage the listener in the conversation. Or: On the statement about friends…she [AS] considers everyone she ever met a friend. Simon Baron-Cohen and others are doing phenomenal research trying to leap over the hurdles of helping both the general populace

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