[SoldierDad]

A Psychiatrist (Lorna Wing) popularized the term, “Asperger’s Syndrome” in 1981. It was named after Hans Asperger (1906 - 1980), an Austrian Psychiatrist and Pediatrician who is said to have exhibited many of the features of Asperger’s as a child. The proliferation of diagnoses of Autism and Asperger’s over the past 20 years has catapulted the disorder, and related disorders into prominence. Autism and Asperger’s has, indeed, become trendy.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Interesting - thanks - I wonder where all the Asperger’s patients were before 1981.......