Talk:Asperger's syndromes

RFV discussion: January–March 2015

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Asperger's syndromes

Asperger syndromes

RFV of the plural forms. I think "Asperger('s) syndrome" may be uncountable, like many disease and disorder names. (I was going to use "cholera" as a specific example but "the choleras" seems to be attested.) All the hits I see on google books:"Asperger's syndromes" are of combinations like "criteria for the autistic or Asperger's syndromes" (="criteria for the autistic syndrome or for Asperger's syndrome"), "Kanner's and Asperger's syndromes", etc. The exception is a book called The Semiotic Web, which seem to use "Asperger's syndrome" as a count noun meaning "person with AS". - -sche (discuss) 08:44, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Hans Asperger only had one syndrome named after him, so I would agree that "Asperger's syndrome" is, as a unique thing, uncountable. Unless you were talking about different experiences of the syndrome as "Asperger's syndromes", as you might talk of "two Englands", but I can't see any evidence that anyone has ever done that. All the attestations I could see are of the "list of syndromes" sort.

I concur that The Semiotic Web uses "Asperger's syndromes" to mean "aspies". It also appears to be unique in this. It's certainly not a usage I'm familiar with (as an aspie myself).

--Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 09:12, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 03:04, 3 March 2015 (UTC)