Asperger’s “curative education” dept. at Vienna Children’s Hospital

Within three years, Margarete’s b diagnoses had run the gamut: from ‘waywardness’ to ‘manic depressive insanity’ to schizophrenia to menstrual problems to being ‘tentatively educable’. . . . Deadly in its arbitrariness, Nazi psychiatric diagnosis came down to individuals’ decisions and shifting criteria – in which haphazard, hasty words had enormous impact on children’s lives” (Sheffer, 167-168).