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Asperger's is not a form of autism

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Asperger's is not a form of autism. I really wish you would remove that from your description of asperger's. I hear that all the time and so many people believe that because website's (yours incliuded) posts that for everyone to read and believe. Autism and Asperger's are on the same spectrum and I see how people might be confused by that but do some research because they each stand alone. There is high functioning and low functioning of both autism and asperger's, but I hear all the time "asperger's is a high functioning autism" Incorrect. I know you are trying to inform people, but that in particular bothers me because my husband has asperger's and that misinforms people. Just trying to help you better inform people, please do some research and change that. Thanks

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    I realised this morning, that here we are, a group of people who struggle with being over literal and who struggle to understand each other struggling with the exact meaning of a word. Makes you think (and chuckle)!

    The word autism has to be understood against the shifting sands of both public understanding and medical knowledge. In this thread we have been struggling to work out what it means as if it had a single meaning.

    in my mind there is

    autism [1] a medical term which has been refined over time to mean a precise diagnosable condition relating to being self centred and poor at communicating with the outside world.

    autism [2] is a slightly archaic and not so well defined condition that Kanner identified. He didn't manage to distil out the currently identified disorder from a basket of other problems that his patients had.

    Medical understanding has moved from meaning 2 to meaning 1 as they have got better at splitting out the multiple problems that many autistic people have.

    The public understanding has lagged behind and it's probably fair to say that they are confused, ignorant and prejudiced and they struggle to understand what the difference is.

    Aspergers was originally identified as very different to Kanner's but it's now recognised that AS is really more about the narrower modern definition.

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    I realised this morning, that here we are, a group of people who struggle with being over literal and who struggle to understand each other struggling with the exact meaning of a word. Makes you think (and chuckle)!

    The word autism has to be understood against the shifting sands of both public understanding and medical knowledge. In this thread we have been struggling to work out what it means as if it had a single meaning.

    in my mind there is

    autism [1] a medical term which has been refined over time to mean a precise diagnosable condition relating to being self centred and poor at communicating with the outside world.

    autism [2] is a slightly archaic and not so well defined condition that Kanner identified. He didn't manage to distil out the currently identified disorder from a basket of other problems that his patients had.

    Medical understanding has moved from meaning 2 to meaning 1 as they have got better at splitting out the multiple problems that many autistic people have.

    The public understanding has lagged behind and it's probably fair to say that they are confused, ignorant and prejudiced and they struggle to understand what the difference is.

    Aspergers was originally identified as very different to Kanner's but it's now recognised that AS is really more about the narrower modern definition.

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