Asperger's Disease (syndrome) or Assburgers syndrome? WTF!

Here we go again. In the episode of Parenthood aired last night, the series featured a child with Asperger's Syndrome (Asperger's Disease). It a type of autism characterized by difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. As expected searches for Asperger's Disease (Asperger's Syndrome) topped Google Trends this morning.

But what is assburgers syndrome? The term "assburgers syndrome" was somewhere at the top of
the searches as well. Surely, it's not something you get from eating burgers made from... Never mind!

As in the case of previous confusing search terms, assburgers syndrome is another product of misspelling. Looks like a lot of people should have a dictionary handy when they watch TV. As to Asperger's Syndrome, here are a few details about the disease via Wikipedia.

Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, and people with it therefore show significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and atypical use of language are frequently reported.

The lack of demonstrated empathy is possibly the most dysfunctional aspect of Asperger syndrome. Individuals with AS experience difficulties in basic elements of social interaction, which may include a failure to develop friendships or to seek shared enjoyments or achievements with others (for example, showing others objects of interest), a lack of social or emotional reciprocity, and impaired nonverbal behaviors in areas such as eye contact, facial expression, posture, and gesture.

People with Asperger syndrome often display behavior, interests, and activities that are restricted and repetitive and are sometimes abnormally intense or focused. They may stick to inflexible routines, move in stereotyped and repetitive ways, or preoccupy themselves with parts of objects.

Although individuals with Asperger syndrome acquire language skills without significant general delay and their speech typically lacks significant abnormalities, language acquisition and use is often atypical. Abnormalities include verbosity, abrupt transitions, literal interpretations and miscomprehension of nuance, use of metaphor meaningful only to the speaker, auditory perception deficits, unusually pedantic, formal or idiosyncratic speech, and oddities in loudness, pitch, intonation, prosody, and rhythm.

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