Asperger’s disorder is a kind of autism disorder. People suffering from this are identified with some relevant and pertinent characters such as doing things repetitively, being lonely most of the times and finding it challenging to interact socially. Physical awkwardness and ineptness and usage of a typical language are the commonly reported problems.
Symptoms in children
The symptoms in children are noted down only when the parents get a hold of them during their preschool stage, wherein they start interacting with other children. The main symptoms would be not able to pick-up or maintain a conversation with anyone, not able to understand and interpret other people’s body language and talk things that are irrelevant to the topic. They will be not like to change things that are in a routine and will also lack understanding concept. They might not be able to realize the differences in speech tones, and accent which abruptly changes the meaning while others speak.
They might not even recognize or comprehend a joke or may even take an ironic or mocking comment very seriously. Their speech also will be very flat and pretty tough and difficult to understand since it does not have a pitch, tone and proper accent.
Always talk to them in a formal manner since they might be using the same words again and again. They might avoid direct eye contact and start to stare at the other people. They also might be occupied with some interests of their own, in which they might be an expert, rather than getting involved in any other thing. But still, many children who have Asperger’s syndrome are interested only in some unusual activities such as trying to draw very detailed things, or showing interest on rare topics such as the names of the stars and snakes.
They speak a lot about their favorite subject alone, wherein they do not even notice whether the opponent speaks in return or not. A child with one of these above mentioned symptoms does not mean that they are subject to Asperger’s syndrome. In order to diagnose and analyze this particular syndrome, the child has to have to a mixture of all these symptoms and relative problems with social interactions.
Symptoms in teens
Most of the Asperger’s syndrome symptoms continue and grow during the teen years only. The teens affected with this syndrome will find it pretty difficult to read the behavior of other people. Hence, they start facing problem to communicate and behave socially.
Teens with this syndrome will be fond to have more friends around them, but will feel diffident and hesitate to approach other teens. They might feel that they are very much different from other people. They might even be immature at their age and also be inexperienced and naïve, which might end in bullying and teasing in front of others.
All these particular symptoms will make those teens to become more depressed and create a false note that they are being ignored wherever they go.
But still, some teens will be able to cope up with the syndrome and make few close friends during their schooling. Teens with this syndrome will not be interested to follow social rules and standards, and will only think of doing creative things on their own. But one thing is for sure. With this particular preference they make, they will grow to be the leading ones in the classroom as well as great citizens in the future.
Symptoms in adults
This syndrome is considered to be there for lifelong, even though it has a tendency to become stable and alleviate at some part of the time, wherein many improvements are visible. The adults will have a good perspective of their potential capability and also their weakness too. They will be a good learner of the social skills which includes the reading of others physical manners too. Many adults with this Asperger’s syndrome get married to other people and also have children.
Some peculiar characteristics such as paying great attention and focus on something of their interests will surely increase the probability of them being successful in studies and as well as in their career path. Most people with Asperger’s syndrome are said to be more interested and attracted towards technology, wherein a career which is chosen in common would be engineering. But it does not mean adults with this particular syndrome excel only in scientific career paths, there are also many other historical people who have had these symptoms but still have succeeded in their career and have even become role models to many people such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson and Marie Curie.
