neuro gave me new label and said interesting stuff...

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I kind of got a kick of his new term, "functioning."

It seems to me that most people on the spectrum are a spattering of high functioning and low functioning skills. All Aspies seem to have a a few areas in which they barely function, but enough high functioning areas to get away with it. When we think of the lowest functioning on the spectrum, there are so few or no high functioning areas that they can't get away with it as far as having anything resembling an independent life.

Long run, the labels really are useless. Understanding where one persons strengths and weaknesses are, however, can be very useful. I like the detail he gave you, as to which areas were high functioning and which were more impaired, because that gives you a road map for seeing where you need help, and for what you need to adapt. THAT is useful. The labels ... not so much.

The neuro gave you an accurate rundown on the differences between HFA/Autism and AS.

More "stimming", and less desire/care for social interaction is stereotypically HFA--how one appears in their twenties is a good way to determine what disorder they have (generally, anyway). People with a speech delay can turn out to have Asperger's, whereas those who have relatively spared speech may turn out to have Autism; many professionals tend to just label people with ASD/PDD as children for this reason (granted, more people with severe deviance of verbal communication are found amongst the population of Autism compared to Asperger's as children, but most people who had deviant language tend to develop adequate expressive and receptive language as an adult).

To many professionals, there's really no difference between the two as they're treated the same for treatment purposes (more alike than not), even though they do offer two different manifestations of autistic behaviour.

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He said the difference between high functioning autism and aspergers is the obvious, people around you can see, he said somebody with aspergers you can't always notice their sensory issues, or that their stimming, or the fact that they need assistance, while somebody with high functioning autism is more noticable when displaying autistic traits which i found interesting. I think this is pretty accurate. I am ASpie and have worked (as a nurse) with people with classic Autism, HFA, AS & various other dx's I did notice that over time As'ers can aquire skills enabling them to interact in an NT world, had less obvious or more socially acceptable tics, wanted to interact with others (just didn't do it well or misunderstood) & those individuals with Autism really didn't want to interact with ppl, had more issues with stimming, echoalia and other more obviousspectrum traits. and those with He said but overall differences between aspergers and HFA are not much different, except people with aspergers seem more prone to socializing but are very misunderstood to how to, and people with autism seem more prone to ignore the social situations and rather don't care for why they dont understand.pretty accurate in my experience He also some people would say people with autism have more severe sensory issues, and more noticable stimming, which i tend to agree me too)( with, but other doctors will not see a difference there. The language delay doesn't always pertain to HFA, a lot of people diagnosis children with aspergers even though they have a language delay and diagnosis children with autism but high functioning even though they didn't have a language delay.Language delay is (too me) a poor indication for dx'ing spectrum disorders, it may be part of but a less than accurate marker, because there are a multitude of reasons for language delays

"functioning autistic disorder"! ~ I like this, because it takes into account that although on the spectrum you have strengths and weaknesses that are apparent, yet in some instances can function. just like all people on the spectrum & in the NT world

Hey that post was actually kind of helpful thank you..

I find that sometimes I will type the wrong word by accident, and I'm constantly going back to edit my posts to change it to the right word..

And also i used to be a GREAT speller.. but I noticed just recently that I have real trouble spelling words that I used to be so good at spelling... I think somehow that's the fault of spendng time on the computer.. but i dont know for surre..

i like thinking about people's developmental rates as "throwing" projections (as in something getting thrown up and away). we can all start out in the same place (or not) and wind up in the same place (or not) when we land.

it's just about pitch and velocity.

Hello

Welcome to Wrong Planet.

Age, your post was very interesting.

I think it shows that they call it a spectrum for many good reasons, and that we're all fairly different and hard to categorize (to varying degrees, I guess).