This Saturday, February 18, 2017, is the national day of Asperger Syndrome. Created in 2014, it comes shortly before World Autism Day (April 2) and helps draw the general public’s attention to this pervasive developmental disorder – or PDD.
Contrary to popular belief, Asperger’s syndrome (AS) is not a mental illness: it is a neurodevelopmental disorder of genetic origin. People affected by this PDD have a functional abnormality in areas of the brain whose role is to gather information from the environment, decode it and react appropriately.
Very concretely, this means that the body, the brain and the five senses of the person with Asperger’s disease receive information, but that there is a fault in transmission between the reception and the processing of this information. Suddenly, the messages that the senses transmit to the brain are poorly received: the result is a confused decoding of life and the environment.
Result: Asperger’s syndrome is characterized by difficulties in communicating with others, in establishing social relationships, in tolerating noise, in understanding social codes, in decoding facial expressions and non-verbal language, in understandinghumor and irony … In France, Asperger’s syndrome affects between 100,000 and 400,000 people. Boys would be around 4 to 5 times more affected than girls. Each year, between 5,000 and 8,000 babies are born with this disability.
Source: Autism France
To read :
Testimonial: my son has Asperger’s syndrome
The moving poem of a child with Asperger’s disease
