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Aspergers label being used

Iain

I've noticed more posts recently where people are saying they have received an autism diagnosis but then they add Aspergers in brackets.

It has been more than 12 years since it was dropped as a clinical term so I'm wondering why it seems to be talked about more in these last few weeks.

It was just a passing curiosity.

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  • On the NHS website autism and learning difficulties are lumped together. Some way down it states the two are independent, nevertheless, the link is implicit in the headings.

    This may influence the desire for a separate label.

    If you had no developmental delays, are of above average intelligence and don't have issues with academic type learning, then it doesn't seem obvious to me that having a single bucket to put everyone into is helpful. While everyone may need support of some kind, I expect it looks quite different for different groups.

    It may be preferable from a clinical perspective to group them, to limit misdiagnosis and to subsequently treat people on a case by case basis, but I am unconvinced.

    I've seen the argument that putting everyone together means a larger group with more of a voice, and the counter argument that resources are taken from those that need it most. I don't know what the best approach is.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    In my case, I can do a degree, like history where I don't have to have anything to do with maths. On an adjusted Qi test I came out higher than average, but I cannot cope with maths or numbers or tech, with those things I'm quite disabled, but I'm very wordy 

    Maths seems to be one of those things that people are sort of proud not to understand and don't understand how disabling it is to really not understand it.

    Whatever the approach is, it needs to be more nuanced in practice, I can't see who's really served by the current system

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  • in reply to Stuart333

    In my case, I can do a degree, like history where I don't have to have anything to do with maths. On an adjusted Qi test I came out higher than average, but I cannot cope with maths or numbers or tech, with those things I'm quite disabled, but I'm very wordy 

    Maths seems to be one of those things that people are sort of proud not to understand and don't understand how disabling it is to really not understand it.

    Whatever the approach is, it needs to be more nuanced in practice, I can't see who's really served by the current system

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