Asperger or high autism?

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Recently "aspergers" is called "high autism". I hate labels! But if you give me a choice I prefer "aspergers". A decade ago, I helped autistic students. I got an extra buck an hour. I hated working with autistic people. I had to be extremely vigilant. They could sit for many minutes (even more than an hour) and then try to eat a pin on the floor. You had to maintain extreme concentration for hours,that was extremely exhausting!
I felt like the house n****r. I was better than my brothers, ( the field niggas) * in my mind. I was not!!
* Nothing racial here. My point is that we are all niggas and because of our egos we hate that fact.

Do you think labels are important? I remember when clients were temporarily labeled "consumers". An extremely overweight client objected. I understood, even tho I think labels are superfluous to reality.

Damn! Repeat post again! Damn my big fact fingers!

As far as I'm concerned, AS and HFA are interchangeable, the only difference ever noted was a slight speech delay in early childhood in one and not in the other. It does appear however, that merging Asperger Syndrome with the general autism spectrum may turn out to have been a mistake, since research now seems to be indicating that Classic Autism and AS/HFA do have some identifiable neurological differences.

I don't appreciate the fact that the mispronunciation "Ass Burgers" has been popularized through the media, when Hans Asperger pronounced his name AHZ-PAIR-GUR.

I find it strange that you say you hate labels, and then proceed to label everyone as various groups of "niggas." That's one of the most objectionable labels around.

Objectional labels are the best! They make us think! I have never been a big fan of the police,but when the Detroit cops formed a blues band called the "blue pigs" I admired that! The term "pig" became very cool. That was smart!
Similarly, I embrace ass -burgers. Objecting to an insult makes it more intense. Embracing it makes your opponent look the fool.

High functioning autism. High autism makes it sound like autistics who've been at the weed.

Who am I? Me,if your lucky!

Who am I? Me,if your lucky!

I think they're interchangeable.

I don't mind labels. They're just short, convenient descriptors. It would get annoying describing every little aspect of my personality instead of using a label that more or less describes an aspect of my personality in one or two words.

I prefer the term "human"

Asperger's is on the autism spectrum. I think it's more objective the adjective "autistic", because I hate eponyms

Yeah. "Human" is nice.

I prefer "autism" because it describes me better than "Asperger's", it's more general, and it includes a larger group of people. If they call me Asperger's just because I can talk, then they ignore all the things that are similar between me and the people who are labeled "autistic", even those who can't talk and who have an intellectual disability. People who can talk can have the same types of problems as people who can't talk. I haven't eaten pins, but I had to be taken to the emergency room in my teens because I stuck things in my ears. Sometimes I have trouble taking care of myself. And yet, I am very good at school, and I can talk almost all of the time, and people see me as intelligent. I don't want them to think of me as Asperger's because that lets them assume a bunch of things that aren't true.

If I say "autism", they see me and they hear me talk and they have to face the fact that autistic people can be very diverse and that you can't predict what a person is like just by knowing they have autism. And I like being part of a bigger group than just Aspies, because I have so much in common with classic autistics and non-verbal autistics, and even with people who have other disabilities. I think it's a bad idea to stay in your own little group and never think about what it's like for other people, because if you don't do that you can't pool your ideas. Maybe some problem that's facing autistic people has already been solved by a completely different group, like maybe people with Alzheimer's or people who have prosthetic arms. Who knows. We shouldn't isolate ourselves, because if we do we'll never learn those things from each other.

Six of one. Half a dozen of the other.

I dont understand this "I hate labels" nonsense.

I lived for decades without either label, because I wasnt dxd , and it sucked.

I dont see why going back to those days of being 'free' of a 'label' is in any way desireable.

Yeah, I agree. Now, being free of the stigma associated with the label--sure. I'm waiting for the day when we'll all be free of that. But the label by itself only describes what's already there, serving as a handy shorthand for professionals and a tool for us to use to find things that'll help us.

i like labels, because as a child, i didnt understand why i was different than the other kids, and why i flapped my fingers constantly and acted wierd. i thought i was a freak. i was glad to find out i'm an aspie, glad for the reasonable explanation the label gave me.
i prefer to be an "aspie", because it's more distinct and set apart from the other kinds of autism. it explains better.

I didn't know what I voted for until I read the post. Heh.

I hate labels in general because the psychologists like to slap another on on you every week and get you to visit them again because you have more problems.