is autism and aspergers the same thing?

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TobyRulz
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29 Nov 2010, 4:28 pm

Hi I know i might be a bit of a stupid question but I have herd my mum sating I am Autistic but when I got my diagnosis it said aspergers and the interet is not much help and I dont like talking about it to my mum but I am confussed about the two,,thanks,:)



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29 Nov 2010, 4:29 pm

Asperger's is a type of autism, but high functioning autism (also a type of autism) is the same as Asperger's.

It's all very confusing, I know :lol: