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Learning the Rules of
Asperger Syndrome
By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
Dear Journal, Jennifer Cook O’Toole, the author of
the passage above, wrote the book
How is possible to be so smart and
Rules: the Not-so-obvious Guidelines
It seems like everyone else speaks a
language that I don’t. I watch them. Syndrome when she was thirty-four
I listen. I imitate. I act a lot. Have years old. Only as an adult was
O’Toole diagnosed with Asperger
tennis team has taken to calling me Syndrome. Once she was diagnosed,
things fell into place for her. Rather
the smile plastered on her face – it’s than feeling alone and at fault for
her social blunders, O’Toole realized
than the brains of those around her.
With her diagnosis she understood,
I always manage to blow it some-
how. Just give me long enough and -
I’ll screw up any friendship. Seriously, der to teach children with Asperger’s
I wish someone would give me some
rules on how to be “normal” … let me -
cally understand.
It seems to be the only one I haven’t
read. There is a lot of talk about Asperger
Syndrome and whether it belongs
Love,
Jenny
