Man with Asperger’s says wife figured out diagnosis
May 18th, 2009Writing the New York Times’ Modern Love column, David Finch says his “facade of semi-normalcy” fell away in the third year of marriage, revealing someone “cynical and withdrawn, obsessive and preoccupied, dismissive and unhelpful.” His wife, a speech pathologist who works with autistic children, had her suspicions, but it took two more years before she was able to tell him he had Asperger’s syndrome.
Finch credits his wife with helping him develop empathy and other adaptive behaviors.
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