An interesting article on misdiagnosis

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Having noted all the discussion of disorders sharing similarities and diagnostic overlap with AS, I thought that this article might be of interest to many members of WP
http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/7/4/310.full

I read bits but found it wooden, excessively wordy and poorly written

sometimes the writer seemed to contradict themselves in the next sentence....

Where did you find contridictions?

sorry i cant be bothered getting into a discussion on this article....

Its worth note that this article is a decade old.

I've found it very wordy myself. I have enough trouble reading as it is.

The article basically tells me that everything that can be confused with AS either (a) is another form of autism, (b) starts much later in life or (c) has an awful lot of overlap with AS (either makes it highly likely that the person also has AS or is another name for AS)

Which means, among other things, that a carefully thought-out self-diagnosis is not bogus.

Sorry that some of you did not appreciate the article. It was published by a professional trade journal, and the information was not outdated, so I thought it might be of interest to some, at least. If you found it overly wordy for one sitting, it was also easily broken down into parts. And Surfman, I find it interesting that you could be bothered to post your criticism of the article but not to defend your criticism.