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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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  • Methinks that America will soon see just how strange it is to apply one name to a spectrum condition.  It offers absolutely no information on the extent of a persons difficulties, nor does it offer parents or teachers an understanding of what they should expect of a child.

    I have yesterday been diagnosed by the Nottinghamshire NHS Asperger Team(their official title on their letterhead and building), that I have ASC and more specifically Asperger Syndrome.  Now at the age of 60, I can read up in their official "Living with Asperger Syndrome" that they gave me, just why the typical traits are.

    It is, however, upto the diagnosing team to specify where on the spectrum a persons condition lays.

    Seems stupid to dispense with labels... lets call paraplegiac and quadraplegic people "paralysed"... after all, they are simply on a spectrum of "paralysed" levels..sigh

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  • Methinks that America will soon see just how strange it is to apply one name to a spectrum condition.  It offers absolutely no information on the extent of a persons difficulties, nor does it offer parents or teachers an understanding of what they should expect of a child.

    I have yesterday been diagnosed by the Nottinghamshire NHS Asperger Team(their official title on their letterhead and building), that I have ASC and more specifically Asperger Syndrome.  Now at the age of 60, I can read up in their official "Living with Asperger Syndrome" that they gave me, just why the typical traits are.

    It is, however, upto the diagnosing team to specify where on the spectrum a persons condition lays.

    Seems stupid to dispense with labels... lets call paraplegiac and quadraplegic people "paralysed"... after all, they are simply on a spectrum of "paralysed" levels..sigh

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