I might have Asperger’s Syndrome. But do I really want to know?

[caption id="attachment_21611" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Creative Commons image by Håvard Bjerke.[/caption] By: Serenity Baruzzini Most people are unaware of the symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome -- they include an unusually high IQ and a difficulty surviving in the social world. The fact that the symptoms vary in gender doesn’t help. Serenity Baruzzini, age fourteen, does not yet have a formal diagnosis, and now she's struggling to decide whether or not she wants one at all. Serenity comes to us from the Philadelphia-based Mighty Writers program.