What you need to know about Asperger Syndrome


Greta speaking at an event during the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain. — AFP

I heard that Greta Thunberg, TIME magazine person of the year, has Asperger Syndrome. What is this syndrome?

Asperger Syndrome is a relatively new psychological profile in the sense that it was only coined in the 1980s.

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