NeantHumain wrote:
For many of these Asperger's "types" descriptions, it sounds like a completely different psychiatric disorder is being described. If it suggests the person may have traits of or a diagnosis of another disorder, that's probably the disorder that applies. By Occam's Razor, if all of a person's symptoms (including social difficulty) can be accounted for by one diagnosis, another diagnosis is superfluous. Baed solely on the descriptions of these "types," I would probably not suspect AS in most of them (unless there are things about the person beyond those mentioned):
I don't like the "typing" thing in this manner.
However, they're just talking about different sorts of people that autistic people can be like. They're not talking about some kind of "additional mental disorders", and it's not meant to be diagnostic. They're talking about personality types that autistic people can have, based loosely on famous people. Autistic people
can vary that much in personality without having additional labels tacked on.
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