Does Temple Grandin have Aspergers, HFA or classic Autism?

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thomas81
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18 Nov 2012, 6:35 pm

I've seen her movie biography and watched her videos on youtube but can't place where she is on the spectrum.

She seems to have both high and low functioning tendencies.



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18 Nov 2012, 6:41 pm

She has said she has Asperger's in her interviews.

But, according to the DSM, Asperger's has become a ghost and does not exist anymore, so she'll likely have to go with ASD when it's official.



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18 Nov 2012, 6:47 pm

JRR wrote:
She has said she has Asperger's in her interviews.

But, according to the DSM, Asperger's has become a ghost and does not exist anymore, so she'll likely have to go with ASD when it's official.


She wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's, she was diagnosed with autism according to the DSM 2 criteria. Due to that, I always thought she had HFA.



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18 Nov 2012, 6:55 pm

according to the movie, she has fantastic savant abilities like being able to read a page of a book through photographic memory.

I wish I could do that.



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18 Nov 2012, 7:02 pm

I thought that she had HFA, high-functioning classic autism.



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18 Nov 2012, 7:17 pm

All of them. She had classic autism in her childhood and now she is HFA but she was diagnosed with AS in her adulthood. :wink:


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18 Nov 2012, 9:49 pm

But isn't the only main difference between HF classic autism and AS is the speech delay? That can't change in adulthood. I could be wrong here, but I thought I read somewhere that she was diagnosed with classic autism but more closely associates today with AS due to her functioning.


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18 Nov 2012, 9:51 pm

thomas81 wrote:
She seems to have both high and low functioning tendencies.


Nothing about her is low-functioning. She is verbal, has a successful career, takes care of herself. Low-functioning means you can't do these things in the same manner as she has. I would say as a really young child, she might have been MFA, but with all the treatment and education she had, she is now HFA. I don't think she ever qualified as LFA.


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