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i've just read through the replies here after my other reply to this thread just now. just want to say....i hope we can keep an open mind about this. please try to be sensitive.

asperger's is definitely a condition brought about by genetic factors.

it affects females differently to males, therefore far less go undiagnosed, suffering through lack of understanding...not just from others but also towards themselves.

my second cousin has aspergers.... he is a boy....therefore through him this condition has come into family members attention; they know something about it.

just sharing my thoughts.

at the end of the day it is wise to listen to what some of the experts have to say on such matters rather than being judgmental.

throughout the ages, all kinds of things have left people to suffer from the lack of understanding from others. for example, not so long ago, people who were born handicap or suffered from illness were locked up in the most vial of places; certain to drive anybody more insane simply from the agony of being there. in some countries this still continues. m.e. is another illness people are only recently beginning to understand.

having said all that, i do think there is a reason for everything.

i feel that there are more, underlying spiritual reasons for why people are being born into the world with asperger's.

i think we all have a part to play in the world, in the greater plan........everybody.

in my opinion, this sums up the nature of asperger's:

"what god gives with one hand, he takes with another".

(not sure where that came from- i just heard it somewhere).