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ASC or Aspergers - what to say??

Clemmie

Help!  My son has just been diagnosed with 'asc' but the Senco at school seems happy to use the term Aspergers, and says that this is more widely recognised in the community.  I'm worried to tell him he is Aspergers when the Dr has not used this term, but the general definition seems to fit.  I think I'm right in that they don't diagnose Aspergers any more, but so much of the helpful literature still uses this terminology.

Am I ok to use Aspergers when no-one has actually diagnosed this?

Will it confuse him to be both? (how do I explain both definitions??)

I want to be able to talk to him soon as aparently someone I told in confidence has told a child in his class and I don't want him to hear from them.

what do I say???

thanks

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    People are completely baffled if I tell them I am autistic because they simply do not understand how I can be apparently functional and yet autistic. It does not make sense to people. Autism conjures up images in peoples minds that are unhelpful and ill informed. If I say I have Asperger's then there is more understanding. Asperger did a lot of the original research and was one of the people that identified that there is an issue. The prevailing view at that time was that sufferers are mad, bad or without hope. I am grateful to them for starting to separate it out as a syndrome even if there was no explanation of how or why it works.

    An autistic label is given nowadays because it makes more sense to medical people, the autism term describes the root condition without concern to someone's intelligence. The Aspergers diagnosis combined autism and intelligence and, in a sense, it confused the issue. I would use both terms and hope that one or other wuld make sense to the person I am talking to. My experience of adult life is that it makes almost no sense to anyone and nobody really gets it but they do understand that I am different and I get less criticism and get into fewer arguments than I used to.

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    People are completely baffled if I tell them I am autistic because they simply do not understand how I can be apparently functional and yet autistic. It does not make sense to people. Autism conjures up images in peoples minds that are unhelpful and ill informed. If I say I have Asperger's then there is more understanding. Asperger did a lot of the original research and was one of the people that identified that there is an issue. The prevailing view at that time was that sufferers are mad, bad or without hope. I am grateful to them for starting to separate it out as a syndrome even if there was no explanation of how or why it works.

    An autistic label is given nowadays because it makes more sense to medical people, the autism term describes the root condition without concern to someone's intelligence. The Aspergers diagnosis combined autism and intelligence and, in a sense, it confused the issue. I would use both terms and hope that one or other wuld make sense to the person I am talking to. My experience of adult life is that it makes almost no sense to anyone and nobody really gets it but they do understand that I am different and I get less criticism and get into fewer arguments than I used to.

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