Symptoms
- Not picking up on social cues and they may lack inborn social skills.
- Dislike in any change of routines.
- Appear to lack empathy.
- Having unusual facial expressions or postures
- Talking a lot, often about their favorite subject.
Prevalence
- 3 in 1000 get it worldwide
- 1 in 110 get it in the US.
- Asbergers is almost five times more common for boys.
- Usually diagnosed in the ages between 2-6
Prognosis
- People with Asbergers are likely to live a normal or close to normal life.
- Children with Asbergers may need special attention and/or have troubles with social interactions.
- Adults with Asbergers are usually employed in jobs where little or non human interaction is needed, like: Computer Science, Mathematics, Art, Music sciences etc.
Problems
- Most children with Asbergers have no friends because of their lack of social skills.
- They get annoyed to a point where they get angry and they can even take it out on other people or objects through violence.
- People with Asbergers have obsessive interests in some areas, but then they have got no interest at all in other areas. These obsessions take up a lot of their time.
