Asperger syndrome in a 19-year-old woman, with particular emphasis on adolescence period – case study
Agnieszka Mazur1, Izabela Chojnowska-Ćwiąkała2

The article includes a description of a 19-year-old woman diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at the age of 14. It presents the changes in the clinical picture, with specific emphasis on the period of adolescence. They were illustrated with original patient’s statements about her problems. What attracts the attention is a peculiar language which is used by the patient – childish, though at the same time marked with grandiose tendencies. This language, with its intellectual, self-centered acumen and unwavering determination, symbolically expresses her limitations and difficulties connected with taking up new developmental tasks in biological, psychological (intrapsychic) and social (interpersonal) areas in the course of adolescence. The specificity of the current, early-adult functioning of the patient is emphasised with her generally good intellectual capacity and well-established disorders in the area of social adaptation.