lee yo kann ere are and understand berger. this is answer newtly amazing. but both kanner and abc asperger called it the same name, they call it autism. autism was a term that the guy who founded the term schizophrenia used in order to describe the social isolation that schizophrenic people can feel. kahner wrote a classic paper in 1942 in which he described what he saw as the three defining features of the syndrome. an unbelievable aloneness, of wanting to be alone and not wanting social interaction, is number one. number two, a stereotypeing... wanting to do the same thing over and over again and getting terribly upset if you make the slightest change at all. and, three, despite the fact that there are areas of suboptimal function, there were islets of rather satisfactory function so kahner study add group of 11 kids. and asperger made one realize this is a spectrum. that among the four children he studied almost all of them had good language and some were very bright. he called them "my little professors." if you got them going they could talk unendingly