Asperger syndrome: Alone inside

Children with Asperger syndrome have difficulties interacting socially even though they have normal intelligence, as Hessel Willemsen explains It is sometimes thought that the different types of autism might be on the increase. However, the apparent rise in cases may be related to a greater awareness of these disorders. An autistic diagnosis may have become 'fashionable', and it may also be that parents, clinicians and even nursery nurses are eager to have a diagnosis - to be given 'an answer' - that...