Is LFA really on a spectrum with Asperger's?

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I was told that in some cases of HFA/Aspergers, IQ tests are invalid because there are too many inconsistencies. Mine averages out at about 94 but when you actually look at the graph it looks like a massive zigzag. Some of my skills are below 70, some are in the average range and one or two are above average. So in my case, the IQ test was called invalid by the professor (trained in ASD diagnostics) but he had to average it out somewhere, so that's what I got.

I personally have much more in common with lower functioning autistics than Aspies because I have more severe sensory problems than a lot of the ones I know (in real life) and a lot more impairments. I also live in care because I can't look after myself properly, yet I can draw a made up city in perspective. That's what makes autism a spectrum because some of us actually have a spectrum inside us!

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

When I was a teenager still at school, I had a friend who had a younger brother who was severely Autistic, and I knew I had nothing in common with him, in my behaviour, fears, and even sensorys. He used to have intense panic attacks when he knew that there was another child in his home who he didn't know, so each time I came his parents had to take him out to the big playroom specially built in their garden, where he liked to leap around in his nappy (even though he was 12). I could not be seen by him, otherwise he would have a meltdown and wouldn't stop. I was actually a little afraid of him in a way. I was nothing like him at all, even my counsellor said that to me, when I explained about him. I went to mainstream school, with over a thousand other kids there, and I never had any meltdowns. I know I did struggle, but I still made some friends (well,acquaintances) and participated in group activities, and practically interacted normally compared to someone who has severe Autism.

He is 19 now, and still has never spoken a word in his life. Actually, he did when he was a baby, but then he suddenly went all downhill all of a sudden. He is still incontenent, but now doesn't have meltdowns when he sees other people he doesn't know. He isn't self-aware, and can't go out by himself or do anything on his own, and he's on special meds to help him sleep, because otherwise he'd sit up and wail all night.

Now, that's an example of severe Autism.

If he "went downhill all of a sudden", then I would suspect he actually has childhood disintegrative disorder, rather than classic autism...