Let Hans Asperger's work be translated at least 10 years earlier

I read the report in the Guardian with a certain sense of usual press headline seeking. Until I can read the entire paper and see peer reviews I will withhold any judgement as the author may well have an "axe to grind". Asperger's syndrome and the man himself often throws up more questions than answers and none of those answers are easy.
 
As for high school education, from experience i can say that has not got easier now, on the contrary.
I've heard and read that high school has focused a lot more on organizational skills than it used to. Almost the level of juggling multiple projects and timelines as if a person were the main manager of a Walmart store!

Contrast this with what I observed back when I was in college in which a student would take a backpack of books to the library and study a little of this and a little of that as the spirit moved them. And to me, this was a highly successful study session. I guess the difference is (1) being attune to what's working right now, vs. (2) something hardwired in externally.
 
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Note: Watch your language if any of you want a response from me.
Since I feel it's often how people really talk, I do sometimes use profanity. I draw a couple of distinctions. I try to use profanity toward or about a situation and not thrown at a person, esp. a person here at AH. And then, even as a good agnostic, I try not to "take the Lord's name in vain" too often, because I realize a lot of people are religious to one degree or another and it may legitimately bother them.

I understand if this is not good enough.
 
Actually, Grunya Sukhareva might have described Asperger's in 1925, if she'd left Russia during the Civil War we'd be a whole century ahead when it comes to autism. . .
Yes, it sounds like she largely did. :)

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...ychiatrist-discover-autism-1925/#.Wto7U2aot9A

' . . . According to Sukhareva, schizoid psychopathy was characterized by “lack of facial expressiveness”, isolation and lack of social interaction, and odd and socially inappropriate behavior. They also had a “tendency towards automatism”: stereotypic behaviors and speech, obsessive interests, disliking interruptions, and wanting things to always happen in the same way. She also held that these children had normal or superior intelligence, were sensitive to noise and smell, and were sometimes musically gifted.

'This could almost serve as a modern description of autism. . . '
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43820794

If his work happens earlier it might be more thoroughly integrated in the Nazi eugenics system
As the following Guardian article says, there’s no evidence Hans Asperger referred autism spectrum children for euthanasia, although he did refer other children for euthanasia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...aided-and-supported-nazi-programme-study-says

This is very disturbing. Going to need to rethink nicknames and shorthand descriptions for a person on the autism spectrum, and that’s just for starters.

Sad news.
 
So let's rethink, what if Sukhareva and Asperger works were translated as fast they were published?
The world opens :)

School and jobs are much more mult-path rather than single-path. For example, something like Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences come out much earlier than the 1980s.

 
and with this increased interest, Hans Asperger is discredited as a nazi far earlier. Basically, the attitude is, we’ll take it from here. He almost certainly loses his medical license. He might even spend 10 years or so in prison.

It’s interesting to ask how far de-nazification might have gone had we not immediately shifted to viewing the Soviets as our enemy.
 
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