Can animals have Asperger's - autism?

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TheMysteriousOne
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07 Aug 2010, 12:48 am

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He / she could start an amusing thread here on the value of Feline Self Diagnosis.


Feline awareness, how mice!


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ChrisVulcan
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08 Aug 2010, 4:58 pm

I heard of some geneticists trying to find the elusive "autism gene" who were able to create autistic behaviors in mice.

I'm also pretty sure animals have psychiatric disorders; my sister's dog is obsessive-compulsive. (To anyone reading this who actually has OCD, I don't mean this unkindly.)