Burgoine E, Wing L
Br J Psychiatry. 1983 Sep;143:261-5. doi: 10.1192/bjp.143.3.261.
The case histories are presented of three 17 year old identical male triplets with Asperger's syndrome. They show the impairments affecting social interaction, non-verbal communication and imagination, the motor clumsiness, and the circumscribed interests characteristic of that condition. They also have some features in their history and present behaviour more typical of childhood autism. Despite marked overall similarities, the three differ in the severity with which their problems are manifested. A relationship can be found between the amount of peri- and post-natal trauma, degree of intellectual impairment and number of autistic features. The findings support the hypothesis that autism and Asperger's syndrome are on the same continuum of pathology.
本文呈现了三名患有阿斯伯格综合征的17岁同卵男性三胞胎的病历。他们表现出影响社交互动、非语言沟通和想象力的障碍、运动笨拙以及该病症特有的局限兴趣。他们在病史和当前行为中也有一些更典型的儿童自闭症特征。尽管总体上有明显相似之处，但这三人在问题表现的严重程度上存在差异。围产期和产后创伤的程度、智力障碍程度与自闭症特征数量之间存在关联。这些发现支持了自闭症和阿斯伯格综合征处于同一病理连续体的假说。
