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Not all Asperger Autistic

David

I have been told that I have Asperger Syndrome but one Psychologist thinks I have a Non Verbal Learning Disability which can be confused with Asperger Syndrome but is not Asperger Syndrome.  I did fall out of a pram as a baby.  I know the Asperger Label will disappear as Hans Asperger worked in Nazi occupied Austria.  I am sure that many people diagnosed with the old label Asperger Syndrome are  not Autistic at all but might have had Autistic traits and other difficulties.  I think they tend to give the Label to people with Asperger Syndrome if they have difficulties in particular social skills and they cannot know if the difficulty is caused by Autism.  It does not make that much difference to the individual as they still have difficulties but we cannot be sure of the causes as some of the individuals who are diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome could have a brain injury or in a few cases  a difficult childhood..

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  • David said:
    It does not make that much difference to the individual as they still have difficulties but we cannot be sure of the causes as some of the individuals who are diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome could have a brain injury or in a few cases  a difficult childhood..

    I agree. However, no one really knows the causes of autism. So a difference in cause isn't really likely to change the diagnosis. Not on its own anyway.

    What seems to be confusing is that I haven't heard experts come out and say explicitly that everyone who has been diagnosed as AS is now seen as having 'ASD' or autism spectrum condition (increasingly referred to just as 'autism'). Here's Tony Attwood talking about the change:

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    Wikipedia says:

    Nonverbal learning disorder has never been included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases.

    What do you think matches you best? Do you have problems with handwriting, co-ordination or movement?

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  • David said:
    It does not make that much difference to the individual as they still have difficulties but we cannot be sure of the causes as some of the individuals who are diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome could have a brain injury or in a few cases  a difficult childhood..

    I agree. However, no one really knows the causes of autism. So a difference in cause isn't really likely to change the diagnosis. Not on its own anyway.

    What seems to be confusing is that I haven't heard experts come out and say explicitly that everyone who has been diagnosed as AS is now seen as having 'ASD' or autism spectrum condition (increasingly referred to just as 'autism'). Here's Tony Attwood talking about the change:

    134405682

    Wikipedia says:

    Nonverbal learning disorder has never been included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases.

    What do you think matches you best? Do you have problems with handwriting, co-ordination or movement?

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