I am reading “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” and I consider that the behavior of the main character is interesting. For this reason, I have looked for information about this syndrome.

The Asperger’s Syndrome is a hard disorder about the development. This syndrome is characteristic for important difficulties in the social interaction and for a limited and unusual behavior. People affected with this syndrome have not the capacity to recognize the mental states of the rest of people; that is to say, they have problems with the corporal language of other people. The humans, severely affected, have problems, for example, to recognize the meaning of a smile and they prevent the ocular contact because this result crushing for them. They are happier in structured atmospheres and with routines.

In spite of these problems, they can obtain a big concentration in interesting subjects like means of transport and computers. They usually stand out in mathematics and science. Their concentration is obsessive and their memory is almost perfect. They are considered exceptionally gifted intellectually, however little gifted in the social ambit.

This syndrome is not considered an illness, now that, the expectative of live is the same that the rest of the people.

This year has been declared “International Year Aperger’s Syndrome” because this is the century of Hans Asperger’s birth; he was an Austrian psychiatrist who published the first definition of Asperger’s Syndrome in 1944.

Some curious facts are that well-know people as Albert Einsten and Isaac Newton through of their biographies have been related with this syndrome for their behavior and social problems.

Nowadays some specialists are still arguing if we can speak about Asperger and Autism like a same disorder, now that, many similarities exist between these syndromes but there are some differences too.