Should Asperger be reclassified

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Maybe a bigger problem occurs when people try to expand the description of dyspraxia to include key ASD symptoms, namely trouble with socialising, which creates confusion "where does the spectrum end". The simple solution would be to say that the two diagnoses are not mutually exclusive. For example, Natalie Williams was diagnosed with dyspraxia, but I am sure what she actually has is a combination of Asperger's and dyspraxia. And yes, therefore, she is, without a doubt, on the autism spectrum since "difficulty socialising" and "restricted/repeditive behaviour" are the two hallmarks, and if you read her blog, both of these are pretty darn apparent.

Nonetheless, although I can't find much support to knock Asperger's off the autism spectrum, that doesn't mean I can't find any. Through a quick search using DuckDuckGo; "how similar are autism and asperger's", I came up some differences between the two conditions:

The top difference between the two is Asperger's doesn't have a delay in language development, therefore doesn't get diagnosed usually until a later age. Asperger's is also supposed to be more likely to be accompanied by giftedness. People with Asperger's are more likely to at least try interacting with others.

Supposedly, those with Asperger's are more like to be depressed, because they're more aware of their difficulties socialising.

Finally, there are some brain differences between autism and asperger's, namely the latter usually have stronger connections in the left hemisphere, and have a larger and better developed language processing area.

What we really would need are more careful comparison studies. Until then all that we can do is state our opinions.

I think the main thing is not to contradict someone when they are describing themselves. If someone has found

something they identify with, and someone else keeps describing them as something else, they are going to get

upset. That doesn't mean they are anti the other thing or think it's inferior. How people identify themselves is very

important to them, and it's undermining them to insist on identifying them against their own view of themselves. I

mean it's basically telling someone they are too stupid to know what they are.

Bulletin!

I know this is a bit late, but...

My buddy, and I are back to hanging out together.

And I asked him what his diagnosis was again.

Turns out that I was even more confused than I thought I was.

It was neither schizoid personality, nor was it schizotypal.


He was labeled as "schizoaffective personality".

Something else again.

Schizoaffective.

Dang!

All of these schiz words! Jeeze!

Oh well.

Just to muddy the waters again...
Some are now proposing that the so-called "personality disorders" have such a strong heritability that they could be considered hard-wired vulnerabilities like autism. Environmental factors such as up-bringing can affect the level to which a person demonstrates traits (...creating a kind of spectrum of severity...)

In my opinion the term autism is used for to much different mental problems which have only in common to influence the social interaction with other people.
Currently there doesn't exist a sharp separation of the different problems even that all of them require a quite different treatment, You need also to care whether the people are visual, verbal, emotional or abstract thinking because all of this causes hugh differences in the way that their brain works. All people are different and for this they require a different treatment to overcome their different social problems. But for helping them you need to sort the the people and their way of thinking and the different problems first.
The way that people are can be hard wired thing in their brain or the result of of social interaction and their own way of thinking and also influenced by hormons and subtances within foods or drugs. Beside of this you need to care that the brain is adaptive and able to learn in positive and negative ways by generating additional neurons and additional connections between them. For this it's able to overcome some of the initial hard wired limitations or at least to learn how to deal with them in a better way.
The problems within the autism spectrum disorders are anxiety problems, processing of sensoric signals, the generation and processing of emotions aso.
People who have Asperger's don't generate and process emotions the same way that average people do. For this they can't relate to average people very well and struggle with the expectation of others of being the same emotional way that average people are. But if it comes to me then I wouldn't call people who have no problems beside of this autistic.

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I wish Asperger's wasn't lumped with autism, but it had to be because of many people saying that nobody's high-functioning on the spectrum.

But I don't believe that people with autism have low IQs. Some autistic adults can score higher than average IQ.