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Susan Boyle reveals she has Asperger’s
By Aly Barchi | Published on Tuesday 10 December 2013
Susan Boyle has told the Observer that she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, one of the milder forms of autism linked to social interaction and communication, last year.
Speaking in an interview printed on Sunday, Boyle said she was given a misdiagnosis of “brain damage” as a child, but on learning of her real condition from a specialist in 2012, she now has a “clearer understanding of what’s wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself”.
She adds: “It will not make any difference to my life. It’s just a condition that I have to live with and work through. I think people will treat me better because they will have a much greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do”.