A Look at Asperger Syndrome: “It was an exciting moment for me — and, I imagine, for other parents of children with the baffling neurological disorder called Asperger syndrome — when The New York Times Magazine published Lawrence Osborne’s “Little Professor Syndrome” in June 2000.

The title may have been condescending, but the article itself was terrific, perhaps the best yet about Asperger’s in a mainstream publication: a 4,500-word exploration, in remarkably vivid and sympathetic language, of a world that few readers had visited.

So it was doubly exciting when Mr. Osborne, a widely published health and science journalist, expanded the article into a book, American Normal, published last month.” NY Times