Symptoms of Aspergers Syndrome have a baneful affect on a child’s ability to get along with other individuals and to socialize.  Communication efforts become significantly hindered in the child and the disorder can result in chronic awkwardness and discomfort in every type of social event or situation.  Aspergers Syndrome can affect the child’s ability to function in a classroom atmosphere, to engage with family members, and it can also affect the child’s ability to establish long term and/or lasting friendships.

Aspergers Syndrome symptoms presently have no cure and the causes of the condition, at this time, remain uncertain.  The child with Aspergers Syndrome may seem almost in a state of mania when they begin speaking, especially if they begin conversing on a subject that they find themselves obsessed with.  The child may speak fast, may not seem to make sense, and may have difficulty keeping pace with their own racing thoughts.  The child with this syndrome commonly speaks quickly and then will enter into an even quicker conversational transition where the child will move onto another topic that is related, loosely related, or seemingly not related to the initial conversation at all.

The voice of a child with Aspergers Syndrome will also present some peculiarities: they may not illustrate emotion in the voice when emotion is clearly expected, and they may express everything with an even tone.  Other times, the child might speak far too loudly with no perception whatsoever that he or she is being excessively vocal.  The rhythm of words expressed also seems out of sync and strange.  Interestingly, despite the rapid speech, seemingly racing thoughts, and the seeming disconnection to certain perceptions, the child remains intensely perceptive and can note small or unusual changes in the environment that others may not even pick up on.