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02 Dec 2006, 11:29 pm

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Near the end of the World War II, Hans Asperger opened a school for children with autistic psychopathy, with Sister Victorine. Sadly the school was bombed towards the end of the war, Sister Victorine was killed, the school was destroyed and much of Hans Asperger's early work was lost. It was this event that arguably delayed the understanding of autism spectrum conditions in the west.


When I saw this: it brought shivers down my spine


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03 Dec 2006, 12:11 am

That explains a lot. Definately.



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03 Dec 2006, 12:31 am

YEAH, WOW! So WE were affected by the WWII even more than some that claim to have been affected so much. WOW!

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03 Dec 2006, 12:32 am

SteveK wrote:
YEAH, WOW! So I was affected by the WWII even more than some that claim to have been affected so much. WOW!

STEVE


We all were affected.


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03 Dec 2006, 12:42 am

I corrected it like 15 seconds later, couldn't you have waited?

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03 Dec 2006, 12:45 am

His sister, and probably he also, were killed. What a WASTE!



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03 Dec 2006, 9:18 am

Actually, Has Asperger lived until the late 1970s. Unfortunately, most of his work was ignored until Lorna Wing, in the search for answers in her own research projects, stumbled upon his paper in the early 1980s (in other words, he did not live to get the recognition he deserved but then neither did alot of people).


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03 Dec 2006, 9:35 am

You're right, I forgot about that. 8-( It IS amazing that something done so long ago and so far away can affect so many even today.

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03 Dec 2006, 10:08 am

ljbouchard wrote:
Actually, Has Asperger lived until the late 1970s. Unfortunately, most of his work was ignored until Lorna Wing, in the search for answers in her own research projects, stumbled upon his paper in the early 1980s (in other words, he did not live to get the recognition he deserved but then neither did alot of people).


Yes, his papers were never translated into English or other Euro languages until the 80s with Wing and Frith.

Plus after WWII, the rest of the world didn't exactly have a stellar relationship with Germany for a long time, so I doubt information got easily shared.


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03 Dec 2006, 11:14 pm

That makes sense.