Last Tuesday's episode of "Boston Legal" starring William Shatner and James Spader focused on a fellow employee in their law firm who has Asperger's Syndrome. Alan Shore, James Spader's character, was defending his co-worker because he was very frustrated at his female boss, Shirley Schmidt (Candice Bergen), for passing him over again for a promotion to full partner and put a knife to her throat in the previous week's episode. The co-worker had been with the firm for 15 years. Other co-workers considered him as an oddball, but the truth was that he wasn't an oddball. He was really a person with Asperger's Syndrome.
Alan talked to psychiatrists and came up a solution to keep his co-worker out of jail: Behavior therapy to learn social skills and medication to control his emotional outbursts. I personally think it was a good storyline. I hope they do more episodes about Asperger's Syndrome.
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