Just for the records.. .infantile autism

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IS autistic disorder = Kanners autism.
Different names in different countries. "Infantile" is on the way out because of the way it sounds.
Infantile autism: any IQ, but most (2/3) have any IQ under 70.
My son is diagnosed infantile autism, and he isn't ret*d. Not that it would matter if he was
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That's what I've always thought, but the term 'Kanner's Syndrome' is rarely used in a technical context, so the names get confusing.

I know most of you know.
Posted cause I was mad about something I read. Probably should have just left it....

I think it's good that you posted this separately.

Quite a number of people really do not know (yet). Their focus is often on AS. Natural maybe, if they are very aspie-like and only know other autistic people with AS. It's hard to imagine what any other person is like when you haven't met them yet!

AS does seem to be easier to understand at times than any other ASD. I think that there is more agreement on typical AS symptoms than on the exacts of HFA, LFA and even PDD-NOS. Especially when observing the position of professionals and diagnosticians, there are a lot of controversial opinions these three.

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I heard that Europe is in the process of redoing the whole system: instead of AS, autistic disorder and PDD-NOS, a two dimensional scale where degree of autism is on one axis and intelligence on the other. It would make things a whole lot easier!

Ahhhhhh, yes, 1000 posts! Thank you!


That is very interesting about AD and PDD-NOS. Would they really leave out the Asperger's diagnosis? (Would be the DSM-IV-TR then, if we speak of PDD-NOS.)

If there is any change, I imagine it can only make the current situation of diagnoses, needs and therapies easier. Especially the current problem of receiving services would have to change then. Parents and autistic people themselves wouldn't have so much trouble with getting a diagnosis and being accepted into any kind of service. Currently, it's gruesome depending on where one lives.

If this ever happens for the next DSM-V, I wish they'd make a similar change to the ICD. To benefit all European countries.

It would make it much easier to get help.

Did you know that for year schizophrenia was diagnosed differently in Europe and the states? The Europeans couldn't understand why Americans were claiming such great results with psychotherapy, until they realised the Americans included bipolar!!

Infantile autism is another word for autism.


http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art ... ekey=13881


I have it in my medical records too at the medical clinic I go to for checkups. I thought it was put there because of my past diagnoses in my early childhood so I asked my doctor about it and he says it's what they put for AS.

DSM-IV-TR: