Asperger's and Chronology

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About witches, shamans, etc. there is also the theory that many of these people had Schizotypical Disorder, or Schiziophrenia, or something like that... (there is also the theory that the genes who produce schiziophrenia are the sames that, in a mild variant, produces artistic or scientific genius - exactly the same theory that there is for autism).

In the book Early Childhood Autism: Clinical, Educational and Social Aspects edited by Lorna Wing, Pergamon Press, 2nd edition 1976, there is a section headed "Asperger's syndrome" in the chapter entitled "Diagnosis, clinical description and prognosis" by Lorna Wing. It is about a half a page in length.

Wing states that the relationship between early childhood autism and "autistic psychopathy" as described by Hans Asperger in 1944 "is most interesting but it is as yet unsolved."