Cover -- Transfer Boy: Perspectives on Asperger Syndrome -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE TO READER -- 1 A Transfer Boy -- 2 A Good and Loving Child: The Family Perspective -- "Don't go beyond the yellow line!": The grandmother's perspective -- "Don't forget to make the cross sign!": The grandfather's perspective -- "If he were a millionaire, he would want a bus": The mother's perspective -- "I was the same": The father's perspective -- 3 A Good and Well-Behaved Student: The School Perspective -- "His world revolves around transportation": The teaching assistant's perspective -- "In a few instances achieved beyond the standard": The teacher's perspective -- 4 An Autistic or Asperger: Syndrome Child The Scientific Perspective -- Pervasive Developmental Disorder: The psychiatric perspective -- "Mind-blind": The psychological perspective -- Autistic brain: The neuro/biological perspectives -- 5 A Transfer Boy: The First-Person Perspective -- What is autism? -- Who I am: Teodor's perspective -- 6 Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? -- Teodor as a person -- Teodor's self-understanding -- What a science of autism/Asperger syndrome should be -- 7 Epilogue: Transfer Boy No More -- APPENDIX A: METHOD OF THIS STUDY -- APPENDIX B: DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR AUTISTIC DISORDER -- APPENDIX C: DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR ASPERGER'S DISORDER -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.