I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.

[mandey7]

18. mandey7 to AverageJoe90

From what I have learned, it cannot be cured. Those living with it have to learn to consciously recognize and learn eye contact and social norms that are appropriate. These are things that people without Aspergers are automatically reading without effort. That's why I think if everyone in the country or even western world gets together they can come up with an "agreed upon standard" for social norms to teach that kids with Aspergers are known to lack. Because right now the differences can create a lot of confusion in someone trying to learn these and also a lot of depression and sometimes suicide as teens and adults. Of course even after learning these things life with strangers is not automatically ever going to be easy. Eye contact timing etc- the appropriate replies and gestures, facial expressions and body language- all require training and effort and stress. I would love to see a software program that could do this with the help of web-cam and microphone for facial and vocal training. It does seem that more and more are being diagnosed with Aspergers or mild forms of autism so hopefully something like this will be created soon. I think that whoever comes up with something like this and gets gets the government contract to sell in schools etc is going to be very wealthy, especially if the results are good.