What's your views on the label?

Aspergers is defined by the world Health Organisation as a Psychological disorder. What are your views on this?

Parents
  • Psychological disorders embrace anything from insomnia and anxiety to schizophrenia. The Society of Clinical Psychology includes in their list ADHD, but not autism.

    The problem with autism/aspergers is where do you place it. It normally sits in a gap between mental health and learning disability, a category of its own.

    I think it is used in some contexts as psychological, but the problem is nobody knows.

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  • Psychological disorders embrace anything from insomnia and anxiety to schizophrenia. The Society of Clinical Psychology includes in their list ADHD, but not autism.

    The problem with autism/aspergers is where do you place it. It normally sits in a gap between mental health and learning disability, a category of its own.

    I think it is used in some contexts as psychological, but the problem is nobody knows.

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