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Autism or Aspergers

Daithi

I know that no one should be labelled by a thing one phrase just checking what the communities views are using the word asperger's given it has fallen out of favour with medical community given connections between the namesake and the nazi party. 

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  • Lorna Wing the founder of the NAS (this organisation ) brought the term into standard use in 1981 and the American Psychiatric Association brought on to the standard diagnostic coding in 1986 but the removed it in 2015 with WHO support. The real reason had nothing to do with Nazi stuff. I think the Americans didn’t like the fact that an English female psychiatrist had brought the diagnosis into common use and developed services for neuro diversity!

  • in reply to DaveAsperg

    A bit of inside information is that the NAS has been trying to get out of AS for at least 10 years now because they are not very good at providing services that most people with AS require, and there is very little public money for services for people with AS in comparison to that available for people who fit the criteria for NAS schools or require residential care services.

    The removal of AS from DSM-5 has been advantageous to the NAS, and now all these findings about Hans Asperger gives an even stronger reason to eliminate AS completely from NAS publications and services.

    People with AS have long been a thorn in the side of the NAS as they are a large group of 'unprofitable' customers, but recent changes may well result in them no longer falling into the ambit of NAS services which will be a relief for the NAS senior execs.

    Nearly 90% of NAS income comes from the government (mostly local authorities), and nearly all of this money is ringfenced to provide specific services for specific individuals.

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  • in reply to DaveAsperg

    A bit of inside information is that the NAS has been trying to get out of AS for at least 10 years now because they are not very good at providing services that most people with AS require, and there is very little public money for services for people with AS in comparison to that available for people who fit the criteria for NAS schools or require residential care services.

    The removal of AS from DSM-5 has been advantageous to the NAS, and now all these findings about Hans Asperger gives an even stronger reason to eliminate AS completely from NAS publications and services.

    People with AS have long been a thorn in the side of the NAS as they are a large group of 'unprofitable' customers, but recent changes may well result in them no longer falling into the ambit of NAS services which will be a relief for the NAS senior execs.

    Nearly 90% of NAS income comes from the government (mostly local authorities), and nearly all of this money is ringfenced to provide specific services for specific individuals.

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