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‘Surplus suffering’: differences between organizational understandings of Asperger’s syndrome and those people who claim the ‘disorder’

Juanne Clarke Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]

Gudrun van Amerom Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Pages 761-776 | Published online: 16 Nov 2007

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