Which would you prefer ASD or ASC?

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I'm not really bothered either way. But if they changed it to ASC, I'd have no complaints.

Not found out too much about Sukhareva (there is probably information available in Russian), but to say that she was a Jewish scientist from the Ukraine and survived those times is remarkable - I mean considering the threat from the Soviet State.

Just being a scientist was a hazardous occupation under Stalin, who had some lunatic ideas about science that everyone had to agree with (Lysenko is the search term for more information).

I did read that Sukhareva went on to work with war stressed children and lived on until 1981. At a guess, I think she might have had good friends in high places.

Oh, and according to wikipedia old Hans was not a member of the Nazi Party.

Yes, that was what was involved in being a german or austrian Psychiatrist in those times.

I think the context of the times is difficult for us to understand - to appreciate what History might have meant when living forward through it.

Of course, Asperger may have been a bad man who was stonkingly brilliant at writing up reports and observation, he may have tried his best under pressure and sent kids for death reluctantly, I don't know, he may have been part of a secret master race breeding program for all I know.

Come Hell or High Water (and it did), the reports of Asperger have a sense of clinical objectivity about them that is very valuable, and that will stand in history imo, however good or bad a person he was.

My issue is that he seemed very willing to support eugenics and euthanasia and even supported racial cleansing by deeming certain children unworthy to live. If he was against it, surely he wouldn't have so actively supported it?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... study-says

have just skim read "Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and “race hygiene” in Nazi-era Vienna"
Herwig Czech
- and will have a deeper read of it later, whatever the case may be, and your analysis of it could be perfectly correct, I will have to report myself as someone with Problematic Context Asperger's Synndrome.

"Regarding Asperger’s contributions to autism research, there is no evidence to consider them tainted by his problematic role during National Socialism" = herwig czech

"Come Hell or High Water (and it did), the reports of Asperger have a sense of clinical objectivity about them that is very valuable"- I posted this before and I now want to qualify it, the sections and quotes used from one particular paper (thesis?) by a writer called Coojimans, who then offered his own comments, were startlingly accurate for me as someone diagnosed "ASD Asperger's Type".