Any new theories for Asperger cause?

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Isn't that a paradox?

Why do you assume that you would suddenly lose your personality?

You forget that NT's have the ability to understand things in both ways

Logic > Intuition
(at least in this context)

I'd say it causes more problems to be NT and average-dumb than to be an Aspie with normal intelligence. And I noticed often NTs experience difficulties using their logic when something society-related gets in their way. Talk about cattle mentality.

Can you explain this a bit more?

1: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2005 Nov;46(11):1152-60.
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A randomised controlled trial of a CBT intervention for anxiety in children with Asperger syndrome.
Sofronoff K, Attwood T, Hinton S.

School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia. kate.psy.uq.edu.au

BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief CBT intervention for anxiety with children diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (AS). A second interest was to evaluate whether more intensive parent involvement would increase the child's ability to manage anxiety outside of the clinic setting. METHODS: Seventy-one children aged ten to twelve years were recruited to participate in the anxiety programme. All children were diagnosed with AS and the presence of anxiety symptoms was accepted on parent report via brief interview. Children were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: intervention for child only, intervention for child and parent, wait-list control. RESULTS: The two intervention groups demonstrated significant decreases in parent-reported anxiety symptoms at follow-up and a significant increase in the child's ability to generate positive strategies in an anxiety-provoking situation. There were a number of significant differences between the two interventions to suggest parent involvement as beneficial. CONCLUSIONS: The sample of children with AS in this study presented with a profile of anxiety similar to a sample of clinically diagnosed anxious children. The intervention was endorsed by parents as a useful programme for children diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and exhibiting anxiety symptoms, and active parent involvement enhanced the usefulness of the programme. Limitations of the study and future research are discussed.

PMID: 16238662 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Does that rule apply when you are in an unfamiliar social situation?
What about when somebody does or says something unexpected?

Not sure what CBT is - will try and check into it - maybe also if you check out my site, which gives some more background, you could see if does overlap... all best

Maybe not but I'm not trying to suggest that having Aspergers is easy, far from it. I just wouldn't want to give in to it all and become NT.

I think we can agree that both NT's and AS's have their good and bad points. The only reason we have so many difficulties is the lack of understanding, acceptance and knowledge that society exhibits towards us and our shortcomings. It's hard having to play by NT rules.

All this talk of a 'cure' is counter-intuitive anyway. The only cure that needs to be applied here is to the society that makes it so difficult for us.

That is exactly how I see it. Apart from being hypersensitive to everything etc, all the Aspergers-related problems I've had in my life haven't actually been a direct cause of having AS. They've always been caused by having AS in a society that doesn't understand or accept it.