Asperger's Syndrome

When a child exhibits signs of delayed speech, most parents tend to get alarmed. So they take him/her to the pediatrician and he confirms that the boy or girl has Asperger's Autism. Devastating! However, many shy but intelligent people have been labeled autistic or perhaps worst, childhood schizophrenia. Childhood schizophrenia is not to be confused with Asperger's. Asperger's is more along the lines of selective mutism and high-functioning autism. In fact, that is just what Asperger's is high functioning autism. There are so many terms today that years ago were never ever mentioned. In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, and the shooter Cho Seung Hui, having been diagnosed with Asperger's, more information about it has been disclosed everywhere on the internet, only within the the last year and one half. More on this subject later...