Studies comparing HFA and AS

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It would not be considered 'typical' for an aspie to need somebody to wash their hair when they were in their twenties but all that means is the diagnostic criteria is horribly lacking in any detail. Actually that entire section of the DSM is so horribly prepared as to be unbelievable.

Glider18 - Everyone is affected differently - what you describe would fall under the heading of "daily living skills" and yes, Aspies often have difficulties with organization and being able to do things that others take for granted. A recent study of gifted ASD children had them scoring around 40% for daily living skills even though their IQs were above 90%.

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Also the use of so-called IQ in any discussion only muddles the questions and I personally seriously doubt if IQ has much to do with anything except perhaps for making some people feel stupid and making some people imagine that they are smart.

What is meant by delay in speech development? Because I started talking late and I have AS.

The problem is that IQ test do not actually measure 'intelligence' as such but merely ones potential 'ability' so in effect they should be called Ability Test. Even then they measure ability against preconceived and socially established 'functions' or 'tasks' so those who thing outside of these norms will appear to be either an idiot or a savant depending upon the extremes.

I took one of those online IQ tests along with my wife. She took hers a few days before I took it. I, the Aspie, scored a 129. My wife, who is a NT, scored lower. But then I realized that there was a time limit. I took over an hour to take the test when it was supposed to be like a half hour or so.

But then, just how accurate are those tests? I guessed at some of the questions because I couldn't figure them out. I probably got some of the answers right that I guessed at. That isn't accurate. A person could guess their way to a good score. And, there were some questions on the test that I tried really hard to get right, while another day I may have said I am not going to work out that question---I don't care if I get it right or not. Then there is the question of the online IQ test being a valid test to begin with.

Besides the differences found in performance/verbal IQ that have already been stated, another difference between AS and HFA that is sometimes found in studies is higher amounts of clumsiness in AS than in HFA. After all, Hans Asperger himself noted the seemingly ubiquitous quality of clumsiness in Aspies.
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I strongly suspect however that many ballet dancers may be HFA so I don't put a lot of belief in that part of the 'observations' poor fine motor control is also one of his 'observations' that I think is bunk if you look at the number of us who are capable of doing incredibly detailed work.