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rainbowbutterfly
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 Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:03 am Post subject: Just curious... |
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| What's the difference between someone that's NT with AS traits, or someone with PDD-NOS, given that a person with PDD-NOS can be given that diagnosis if they don't quite fit all the criteria of AS in the DSM? |
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Who_Am_I
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Location: My body is in Brisbane and my mind is in the gutter. :D
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Level of impairment. "NT with AS traits" won't be significantly impaired by their traits.
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Janissy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:45 am Post subject: |
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| Who_Am_I wrote: | | Level of impairment. "NT with AS traits" won't be significantly impaired by their traits. |
Yup. Sometimes known as a nerd. That's most likely me.
Of course until my daughter got her diagnosis, I never thought of myself as "NT with AS traits". I had never heard of those abbreviations before and wouldn't know an AS trait if it hit me. I just thought of myself as a nerd. I got "into things" and wondered why other people didn't seem to get as far "into things" as I did unless they were also the people labeled as nerds. I got far into music, various movies, science, history etc. All the other people as much into these things as me called themselves music nerds, movie nerds, science nerds etc. It seemed as though "nerdism" was defined as getting much farther into things than other non-nerd people can be bothered by. I never equated this to greater intelligence, as sometimes very unfortunately has been done. But when I got here I dscovered the label Special Interest. And also the impairment of being unable to tell when other people don't want to hear about the special interest and it's time to talk about something else (only present in some, as it seems all these traits are, per another thread). I enjoy small talk and can toggle back and forth between talking about my special interest and small talk with no difficulty. Which I suppose is one thing that makes me NT with AS traits.
My husband is quite similar. It's one of the things that drew us together. When we had our daughter, we discovered the equation nerd+nerd=autism, an equation so common in some parts (Silicon Valley) that it's been given the label "assortative mating" as one of the reasons to explain where autism comes from. |
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kingtut3
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: Re: Just curious... |
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| rainbowbutterfly wrote: | | or someone with PDD-NOS, given that a person with PDD-NOS can be given that diagnosis if they don't quite fit all the criteria of AS in the DSM? |
People who are diagnosed with PDD-NOS are autistic but the form of autism is not specified. They still have the impairments. It's very arbitrary whether a person has PDD-NOS or AS. I was diagnosed with PDD-NOS but I say that I have Aspergers, so that I am less likely to have to give an explanation. I fit the criteria for AS, but I don't make a big deal about my diagnosis. Someone else might have diagnosed me with Aspergers. |
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