Disorder, NOT Syndrome!

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The DSM-IV lists our condition as "Asperger's Disorder" not Asperger's Syndrome".

Disorder - dis·or·der [dis-awr-der] n

a disturbance in physical or mental health or functions; malady or dysfunction

Syndrome - syn·drome [sin-drohm, -druhm] n

1. Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
2. a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc.
3. the pattern of symptoms that characterize or indicate a particular social condition.
4. a predictable, characteristic pattern of behavior, action, etc., that tends to occur under certain circumstances: the retirement syndrome of endless golf and bridge games; the feast-or-famine syndrome of big business.

Yay semantics.

I second that.

show of hands: How many women here don't like to be called "sir" or "mister" or "man"?

You can call me any of the above.

Hell, you can call me Princess if you want. What do I care?

Yet interestingly, Asperger's more accurately is descibed as a syndrome - a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like - in that people with Asperger's can vary greatly, though will have a signifcant proportion of a set of relevant symptoms and traits.

It is termed Asperger's Syndrome in the ICD-10: http://counsellingresource.com/distress ... s-criteria

Robin

To back up queerpuppy:

The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders
World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992

F84.5 Asperger's Syndrome


Should be (more) correct too, because AS manifests as a pattern of symptoms, all in the three areas of communication, social interaction, repetitive behaviour and routines.

Last edited by Sora on 28 Feb 2008, 2:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Nevermind that the DSM-IV didn't even add the 'disorder' until 1994...

What do you expect of the NT Psychiatric Complex? Compassion? Understanding?
They think of us as something to put under the bloody microscope ! !!

ve bring da vurld to order
Heil Hitler's vurld to order
every vun of foreign race, will love the Fuhrer's face
ven ve bring to da vurld, disorder... - Spike Jones, Der Fuhrer's Face

Syndrome was the bad guy in The Incredibles...

and that's how I tell 'em apart...

Miss Thang or Queen B, thankyou very much. Disorder, you know I have mixed feelings toward that word. I also don't like the word syndrome either but if it's a syndrome, it's a syndrome. Disorder, well there's are somethings that I do differently then let's say someone who's normal for instance calling my boyfriend up or going to a rave. Damn this disorder, I wish I could just be by myself.

Disorder, syndrome, whatever. It's better than ret*d.

/thread

Now there's a positive at least we know we're not that. We're just a little sensative that's all.

Never mind that Asperger's Syndrome is the accepted term within the medical and psychiatric communities, and disorder is not. Never mind that the DSM-V, slated for release in 2012, will almost certainly change it to Syndrome rather than Disorder. Never mind that the ICD-10 already uses syndrome rather than disorder. Never mind that every major researcher into AS, from Hans Asperger himself up to Baron-Cohen, Attwood, and many others have all maintained that it is NOT a disorder.

What agenda are you trying to push here? Are you asserting that Aspies are, in fact, inherently inferior to other people? Why insist on the more openly insulting terminology?