ABSTRACT
The systematic study of Asperger syndrome is still pretty much in its infancy
even though it is now more than 80 years since Ssucharewa described the syn-
drome that Asperger referred to as “autistic psychopathy” in 1944 and Lorna
Wing labeled “Asperger syndrome” more than a quarter of a century ago (1-3). It
was not until 1989 that operationalized criteria for the condition were published
(4,5), and the international classification manuals for psychiatric disorders did
not acknowledge its existence until well into the 1990s (6-8).
