Misdiagnosing Narcissism - Asperger's Disorder.

) Asperger's Disorder is sometimes misdiagnosed as Vain Personality Disorder, though clear as early as age three. In every case, the patient is self-centered and engrossed in a narrow range of interests and activities. Aspergers treatment.

The Asperger's patient body language - eye to eye gawk, body posture, facial expressions - is constricted and synthetic, similar to the narcissist's. Nonverbal cues are just about absent and their interpretation in others lacking. Yet, the gulf between Asperger's and pathological narcissism is huge. Unavoidably , Asperger's patients are understood by others to be cold, eccentric, insensitive, unexcited, repulsive, exploitative or emotionally-absent. Aspergers syndrome is a neurological disorder. The imaging which has been done means that in people with Aspergers this area of the brain grows and develops much slower whilst other areas grow more quickly. Analogies are not accepted unless the connection is accepted. To bypass the agony of refusal, they confine themselves to solitary activities - but, in contrast to the schizoid, not from choice.

Cerebral narcissists derive Vain Supply from the consummate use they make of their innate verbosity. Neither is the Asperger's patient able to decode nonverbal cues and gestures or to observe his very own misbehavior on such occasions.