"You're not normal" rant

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I should say, for example, that I show ALL 4 traits for Category A; 2 out of Category B; and fit C, D, E but not the last one. Just in case you were wondering what DSM-IV revised ASD criteria I meet.
Most autism experts consider AS to be a KIND of autism differentiated by the fact that the patient is at a higher level of day-to-day functioning than the more severe cases people use to think were the "norm" for autistic. Hence, the term "high-functioning autism." If you're son is not ret*d, i.e, his IQ is below the low-end average, than he is "high-functioning" autistic, not a "low-functioning autistic."
For the record, I agree with you that IQ is a somewhat poor gauge of intelligence, whatever it is. Autism experts now recommend that patients be given Raven's Progressive Matrices IQ measure as it is totally non-verbal and has nothing to do with any mathematical concepts either. It most probably is a better measure of intelligence as complex pattern recognition ability.
Finally, I should note that the former Dean of my university's College of Arts & Sciences (guy named Dr. V. Mark Durand, look him up on Google Scholar if you want to read some of his papers) is a world-known autism expert (and USF is the home base of this "Autism Research Center" the university is affiliated with) and I am good friends with 2 girls that have worked in his lab for a couple of years apiece, I'm only stating what experts at the forefronts of theory and behavior mod. think. That may be subject to change of course, as could my own opinion. Regardless, that's great your soon does not have severe autism mam. Help him as much as you can, but remember he is considered to be 'disabled' as are all patients diagnosed with autism. Good or bad, that's what NTs think.

My point is that those terms I quoted you as using are not clinical terms, not based on anything meaningful. That is, they are arbitrary and most people use them subjectively.
"Most autism experts" is a problematic reference, especially when you are referring to largely unknown people that, to you, are on the "forefront". I'm not referring to experts' opinions or pet phrases but actual clinical terms that are used to diagnose.
For example, at one point my son was diagnosed as "severely autistic". When the psychiatrist officially diagnosed him, she said that he was "almost not autistic" (in debilitation) but fit into the criteria of "autism". Note, nowhere did she say he might have "Asperger's", "mild autism", or "high-functioning autism".

im usually extremely one way or the other....very literal or very lost...
strangest thing..think i am going to post about it...

Yes, I understand your idea. You want "serious" clinical language. But if your son was "severely autistic" and now he's not, that seems to me to merely highlight what I said in substance if not explicitly previously: not all clinicians agree on their own jargon. Also, as I believe I also already pointed out, if I haven't forgive me for the oversight, not all autism researchers believe that AS really exists as a separate "kind" of autism, these researchers ONLY think there is a spectrum from low or non-functional to high-function autism. In their view, it is misleading even to USE the term "Asperger's Syndrome" because Hans Asperger was only describing a variant of Autism, in other words, they think the DSM-IV revised criteria is simply wrong. Don't forget that one time "homosexuality" was listed as a mental disorder, it isn't any more but it may be back in the future depending on how tastes change.

PS- My paper on the evolution and spread of genes for autism does address such issues as the above, but until it's ready for the next round of peer-reviews, than I won't post it on my myspace or my blog here. Rest assured that when ready, it will be posted however for all to read and/or critique.