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dr_dshivtoday at 6:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Autism was split into autism and Asperger’s.

But calling people with social challenges “Assburgers,” I mean, wow. Just wow.


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lcnPylGDnU4H9OFtoday at 7:41 PM

> Asperger’s

This term has a complicated history so people use "high-functioning" now. Many refer to Hans Asperger as a Nazi eugenicist. Reasonably, I'd say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger#Children_sent_to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_Spiegelgrund_clinic#Experim...

> Just as the physician must often make painful incisions during the treatment of individuals, we must also make incisions in the national body, out of a sense of responsibility: we must make sure that those patients who would pass on their diseases to distant generations, to the detriment of the individual and of the Volk, are prevented from passing on their diseased hereditary material