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Asperger's has never been clearly defined, bordering autism on one side and high intelligence and verbal eccentricity on the other. The disease is a kind of cultural lightning rod. First, it's a condition onto which we project the very real and well-founded fears of social isolation inherent in mental illness. But also attached to it is a kind of admiration and envy and (among those who suffer from Asperger's) a kind of elitism, a sense of being one of the elect, in a world mainly peopled by neurotypicals.

Asperger's syndrome. --- Autism. --- Consciousness. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- AS (Psychiatry) --- Asperger syndrome --- Asperger's disorder --- Autistic psychopathy --- High-functioning autism --- Psychopathy, Autistic --- Autism spectrum disorders --- Syndromes