A while ago, Elon Musk publicly announced himself as an Asperger's on television. I used to think Musk was like Asperger, but now my speculation is indeed correct.
Let's take this famous entrepreneur as an example to popularize the knowledge of Asperger's disease.
1. What is Asperger's disease?
Asperger's syndrome (AS) is a developmental disorder that belongs to the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is characterized by impaired social skills to a greater or lesser degree, as well as repetitive or limited patterns of thought and behavior.
Children with Asperger's disease are prone to disrupting discipline and straining relationships with classmates. There used to be several parents who brought their children to consult me because their children were not doing well in school. I knew at a glance that the child was Asperger's disease, but I was not a doctor, I was not qualified for diagnosis, and I could only advise parents to take their children to the hospital for examination.
2. What is the best way for children with Asperger's disease to develop?
It's what Musk is now, able to work a normal life (or even a successful career), make friends, and get married and have children. Ordinary people can't see what is wrong with him, but they feel that this person is a bit strange.
3. Can children with Asperger's disease develop as well as Musk?
No, most of them are ordinary people, doing ordinary jobs, many of them suffering from poor relationships.
4. Are children with Asperger's disease highly intelligent?
Most Asperger's children have a normal IQ, but some of them lag behind in some aspects of intelligence. I have a student who has no problem with language, but it is very difficult to learn mathematics, and it is not right to abdicate addition and subtraction within 20 years in the 3rd grade.
The so-called high IQ among them is mainly due to particularly good memory or particularly strong numeracy. For example, what happened every day, or the route of where to go last year, is clearly stated. I used to have an Asperger's student, a fifth-grade boy, whose hobby was to get people to give him calculation problems with large numbers, such as adding and subtracting dozens and dozens of numbers.
However, when they encounter the discipline of literature and history, it is very difficult to learn, because many times, they cannot understand people's ideas and emotions, and the knowledge of literature and history is definitely not good.
Asperger's disease is a neurodevelopmental disorder of the brain and is often comorbid with other neurodevelopmental disorders of the brain. Some children, who suffer from autism spectrum disorder and also have adhd, can't learn anything in school, and there are many first-grade exams forty or fifty.
5. Is Asperger's disease related to heredity?
Some children have no autistic pedigree history in their families, but he is unlucky and has Asperger's disease. But medical studies have shown that autism spectrum disorder is indeed related to genetic factors. Musk and his first wife had 5 sons, 2 of whom had autism. Before seeing a news, there is a sperm donor in the United States, and 12 of the children born with his sperm have autism.
7. What are the manifestations of Asperger's disease?
Asperger's most notable symptom is a child's strong interest in a subject. Asperger's children love to talk and communicate with people, but they just want to talk about the subjects they care about. They talk about it endlessly, and they don't care if others love it or not.
Other characteristics include some stereotyped behaviors, social and emotional misconduct (which leads to the inability to interact successfully with peers), problems with nonverbal communication, and clumsy and uncoordinated motor movements.
Children with Asperger's disease are easily isolated due to poor social skills and narrow interests. They are socially open and want to be close to other people, but they are annoying due to inappropriate or eccentric behavior. Or maybe they just want to talk about their unique interests and therefore can't talk to people normally.
Musk especially liked to correct mistakes when he was a child, scolding his classmates for their mistakes without mercy, annoying his classmates to beat him en masse, Musk was beaten and rolled down the stairs and went home to rest for a week.
Of course, the same is true of adults in Asperger,but they may be hidden deeper or better controlled. Musk's ex-wife said that musk had just met her and invited her to her room to see "his big rocket." The ex-wife thought Musk was driving, but didn't expect to really watch the Rockets. Normal people who have this idea...
Children with Asperger's disease often lag behind in terms of movement, such as shooting balls or jumping rope to learn more slowly than others. They basically look clumsy and incongruous and don't like sports. Musk's private school when he was a child attached great importance to sports, but he did not like sports at all, and he got up all day long to study.
I have several Of asperger's students, all of whom are weak and collapsed, who refuse to sit upright, and always have to lean against the wall. And only in elementary school is a little bit forward stretched, the back of the neck stem are long rich bags.
I took a closer look, and Musk was also seriously protruding his head. He sat and stood still, shaking as he moved, as if he had no bones. Of course this is my own observation, perhaps not in the whole picture.
8. Can Asperger's disease be cured?
There is no such thing as "healing" in autism spectrum disorder, and even after three or four years of training, they take off the hat of the autistic spectrum, and there are still fundamental differences in some aspects of brain functioning patterns from the average person.
The best of them are, in the eyes of experienced professionals, different from the average person. However, the symptoms are relatively mild, non-professionals can't see it, and doctors don't necessarily give a diagnosis. Like Musk, in China, it is estimated that there will be no diagnosis.
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