An article called Symptoms Misunderstood says that Hans Asperger, who was born 100 years ago, may have had Asperger's himself because he had poor social skills. The article goes on to say that other famous thinkers might have had it too like Einstein and Mozart. There seems to be very often speculation that many famous scientists, phiosophers, mathematicians and other great geniuses in history that had Asperger's Syndrome.
When I see articles mentioning historical people who might have had it, I wonder why employers don't hire us because we can be very beneficial to them and society at large.
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I did some scratching around on the news databases to find the first references to Asperger Syndrome in the media. It was around 96 that the first mentions in the American media (I was diagnosed then, so I may have been among the first adults to be diagnosed --- I ws diagnosed that year. The British/Australian media caught on to it a few years earlier. I did find a couple of mentions of Hans Asperger in the NY Times historic database right after WWII. It wasn't about the syndrome that bears his name. It was about his work with war orphans in the midst of the rubble of post-war Germany. Some of these children had been wondering the cities and countryside in gangs and stealing to survive. Asperger was interviewed about the work he was doing to get these kids socialized. It's ashamed we don't have a Marshall Plan for our own displaced children.
Gordon
There's a nice biographical piece about Hans Asperger on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger
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