Sorry to get picky BUT : A child with aspbergers will become an adult with aspbergers,they will never be "normal". The social disfunction is built in as they come at life from a slightly different perspective, usually a very literal one. If they are lucky they will be given the time & support to help learn to accept their differences , value their strengths & learn the coping strategies they need to deal with this illogical society where everyone talks using code phrases that most people understand without even considering what they are saying. They will learn to recognise sarcasm & body language as they would a foreign language. They will accept that people & society have certain expectations of what they consider acceptable reasonable behaviour, and if that differs from how they see the world then they tend to regard it as just one more example of how strange most people are. If they are very lucky they will have a loving family to encourage them to have the confidence to try new things which is just about everything as one of the symptoms is a difficulty in identifying what in a situation they have encountered before so that they can be able to break down new things into familiar bits which they then know how to deal with. To them even more than most of us habit & the familiar is safe which is why there is a tendancy to develop compulsive behaviour. Yes they tend to have unusually acute sense of touch (which is why they are often so attatched to a particular piece of clothing) & of hearing but because of sensory overload will often develop the defencer mechanism of complete concentration to the exclusion of everything else.