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Wired is such a great read for Aspergers. Not only is it filled with so much tech and geeky news, but it has also published a version of an Asperger assessment created by Simon Baron-Cohen.

A few weeks ago marked the 6th anniversary of what some call victory or defeat. The re-naming of Asperger’s to autism in the U.S. diagnostics criteria, making Asperger’s no longer relevant as far as an official syndrome goes.

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For many Asperger adolescents, the ability to organize and place things in a similar category may be more difficult than for the neurotypical adolescent.

The idea of placing ideas in groups to master the concept is nothing novel, but the idea of using electronic devices or assistive technology to do so is something to consider.

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Superheroes comes in all varieties, and no one knows that better than one NYC artist who looked to his son for some innovative ideas in the world of fantasy.

The result is a total of three educational books to date, all centered around a character called “Jake Jetpulse.”

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Remember your days as an Asperger in college?

Every morning you seemed to have gotten up later and later. Everything took way too long to complete. Too many trips to the drugstore. (Not because you needed prescriptions for the conditions all those Fraternity boys had to fill, but because the intense schedule left you always feeling “under the weather” every other month.)

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Can Big Bang Theory‘s Sheldon (Jim Parsons) be used to teach Asperger’s syndrome to the education population? One Glaskow educator was jokingly told he could.

In a more serious note, the brainy physicists does posses many of the stereotypical traits that make us laugh and sometimes cringe.

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