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littlelily613
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30 Jun 2011, 11:36 am

Callista wrote:
You don't need a speech delay for the classic autism diagnosis; the echolalia is enough. I'm in the same boat there--spoke on time, read early, but couldn't hold a conversation and took longer to learn to take care of myself; so that put me in the classic autism box as a child, and then after I learned speech, dumped me into catch-all PDD-NOS.


Personally this is one of the reasons I am not apposed to the combinations of all PDDs under the ASD label in the DSM-V. A child with classic autism who learns some skills is, in my opinion, a child with classic autism who has learned some skills. It is going to be far less confusing, IMO, when everyone is just ASD.


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30 Jun 2011, 2:52 pm

I met other people (men) whom my doctor had diagnosed with Asperger's in a social skills group... one of them was even more severely affected than I am! He's barely verbal and not understandable and just not there at all socially. He seemed moderately, classically autistic to me... but they diagnosed him with AS. I don't quite get their reasoning.



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01 Jul 2011, 12:01 pm

I remember having extreme difficulty being in the same room with others, as a child, and most especially when looking in to their eyes. I felt discomfort imagining their was a whole universe within their mind, wholly alien and apart from my own.


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