Aspies For Freedom

"Son of Leslie and Yair, Yohai was born on October 8th, 1983, in Haifa, Israel.
With big blue eyes and soft locks of blonde hair, Yohai was a gorgeous baby who grew up to be a handsome young man." -
http://www.yohai-levanon.org/storye.html

"...One week later, on Sunday, July 21, 2002, a secretary in this man's office called to acknowledge the receipt of the letter and to promise help. That very same night, a group of soldiers knocked at the parents' door to tell them that Yohai had been found shot in the head earlier that evening at his base.

When Yohai's parents encountered the term "Asperger Syndrome" they thought that the description of these symptoms resembled Yohai's behavior. (Finding another person with the same eccentricities was awesome.) A psychiatrist specializing in the diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome, who heard accounts from parents and read accounts from teachers, classmates, and other later sources, concluded that Yohai's strange behaviors throughout his life could almost certainly be explained by his being a person with autism of Asperger type.":
http://www.yohai-levanon.org/misgeret%20aspergere.html

sad.  from what I have heard the Israeli army treats its soldiers much better than other countries treat their soldiers.  If he had been given a different placement that might have been better for him.

Sad. However, he didn't die from untreated asperger's syndrome. Even if a given cluster of stereotyped responses to environmental stimuli are to be classified as a syndrome named after one Louis Asperger, a Viennese physician, the response commonly known as depression is a part of the human condition. It cannot be attributed to some other undiagnosed condition of the brain as described through the accounts of relatives. It just doesn't make any sense.

Uh... Hans Asperger, a Viennese physician. Indeed, this is sad. His depression may or may not have been ameliorated had his autism been diagnosed. Still, I doubt the Israeli army wants to torture people of any neurotype, the least of which would be their own troops.

This man fell through the cracks. It happens.