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Asperger syndrome. Mild autism with high potential. Discomfort of famous people. Diagnosis, therapies Quotidiano Medicina 20/2/20 World Asperger Syndrome Day. It takes its name from Hans Asperger, an Austrian pediatrician born in 1906 and died in 1980. Steve Jobs, the legendary founder of Apple, suffered from Asperger's, and famous people such as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, Tim Burton, the American director of Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Planet of the Apes, suffer from it, and Greta Thunberg, a Swedish activist against climate change and for sustainable development, suffers from Asperger's.....Asperger's is not a subject who has cognitive or language delays, on the contrary, he is a high-functioning autistic because he has intellectual, linguistic-mathematical and attention to detail skills that are above average, which are his strong points. What are his weak points?...... They are not many (....but not a few either), 20 out of every thousand births. How do you recognize it until you can make a diagnosis, how does your brain work, how do you experience your emotions?.....Is it complex to reach a certain diagnosis? And once you have achieved it, what approach is the therapy modulated with, what does it consist of, what role does the family have?.......(continue) (open the video) Focus with Annalisa Masuccio, psychologist, psychotherapist Centro Irfri Gruppo Forte