Aspergers is generally not diagnosed as a thing in itself anymore.
Even when it was, it was a kind of 'special subset' of Autism.
Autism is becoming the umbrella diagnosis (or often Autism Spectrum Disorder or Autism Spectrum Condition)
In general, for people who do not conform to the 'predominant neurotype' (PNT) can be described as Neurodiverse - and those diversities can be as wide ranging as any physical diversities you care to imagine (height/weight/skin tone/ etc etc)
There is an ongoing debate as to labels and exactly how much help or damage they bring.
For some, there is comfort in being identified into a small grouping of people whose diversities a more closely aligned with their own. For others, it feels like just another stereotype that one doesn't quite fit in to.
Personally I like the term Autism. Or, for people not engaged in the type of thinking outlined above, I sometimes say "my brain doesn't quite work in the same way that yours does - that's all" and leave the nuance and questions to them.
Aspergers is generally not diagnosed as a thing in itself anymore.
Even when it was, it was a kind of 'special subset' of Autism.
Autism is becoming the umbrella diagnosis (or often Autism Spectrum Disorder or Autism Spectrum Condition)
In general, for people who do not conform to the 'predominant neurotype' (PNT) can be described as Neurodiverse - and those diversities can be as wide ranging as any physical diversities you care to imagine (height/weight/skin tone/ etc etc)
There is an ongoing debate as to labels and exactly how much help or damage they bring.
For some, there is comfort in being identified into a small grouping of people whose diversities a more closely aligned with their own. For others, it feels like just another stereotype that one doesn't quite fit in to.
Personally I like the term Autism. Or, for people not engaged in the type of thinking outlined above, I sometimes say "my brain doesn't quite work in the same way that yours does - that's all" and leave the nuance and questions to them.
