What Kind of Autsim Do You Have?

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That depends on where you reside/what criteria are referred to.

DSM calls it Asperger's Disorder (but acknowledges that it's called Asperger's Syndrome) and the ICD calls it a syndrome only.

High Functioning Autism

I put down PDD-NOS. Under the DSM-IV standards this is what would be the diagnostic category I would fall under.

I have Asperger's.

I know of at leat one. She is known as the "Rett Devil." Her real name is Kassiane, and she has co-authored a published book called "Ask and Tell". I also know her personally.

Labeling it "disorder" is mainly used in cultures and societies where it's common to put others down to feel better about oneself. It's an ignorant term which symbolizes arrogance. It's a way of neutralizing people, labeling them as having a "disorder". The only purpose it serves is to help position people on the social ladder, literally it works as a caste mark for one of the lower castes.

More enlightened and socially developed societies use the term "syndrome" and claim the handicap aspect is relative, not static.

Socioeconomic class and ancestry are also determining factors in what people chose to call it. A lower upper class psychiatrist with upper class parents is more likely to use the term "syndrome" while a middle-class psychiatrist from a working class background tend to call it a "disorder" because putting others down helps him fight his own complex against the true upper class. Lower middle-class is the source of most ignorance and personally biased views when it comes to science.

Likewise, Münchausen-suffering white trash mothers from the lower middle class commonly use the "disorder" term to gain increased attention from authorities and compensate for her own socioeconomic class complex and various supressed bruises on her self-image. Münchausen as a personality disorder hardly exists within the upper class but is widespread among the working and lower middle-classes. Having a disordered child is a much better way of attention-whoring than having a child with a "syndrome" or a neurological variation.

Other: Asperger's Differential.
It doesn't really differ from Asperger's per-se. It's just that I can appreciate the good things about having it. It's not a disorder unless either you don't like having it or you do condescend those who have it. That's why I can't in good conscience vote in this poll.

I see that other members are addressing this issue of the poll. However, I formed my opinion independently of the posts in this thread.

I'm diagnosed AS but I think it's PDD-NOS.