What? We are now the same as autism or what?

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... l/1739301/


Sorry, I was reading this page about "Eliminated the term Asperger's Syndrome" and I find myself not really understanding it, despite it's in English.

I think it says we are now the same as (classical) Autistic people and they want to drop the usage of "Asperger's Syndrome"?

Previously on a Taiwanese website, the translation said that the decision on 1st December, 2012 from USA was about cancelling the term Asperger's, and grouping us into the Autism group, for ease of diagnosis and therapy.
That kind of made me angry a little because most "therapy" was about learning to talk, right? But we Aspies surely don't have speech delay.
I'm kind of annoyed that they think that we are all the same.

However, I don't think the English version was saying what the Taiwanese version said, I think there was a translation error.
I think the English version said, "Alike Autism, AS is no longer a mental disorder", which was what Wrong Planet was fighting for, right?

Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks?

Asperger always was a form of autism.

Its nothing else like the term "visually impaired": You can be nearsighted, you can be farsighted, you can be colourblind, you can have a glaucoma.... All people suffering under any kind of limited sight are visually impaired. That doesnt mean that being nearsighted, is the same as having a glaucoma.

The problem with the earlier terms, was that all forms represented a form of autism, but many of the effected people were floating with their symptoms between this terms. So formally many aspects of the earlier known HFA would fit much better to me, then the ones from Asperger. But for HFA definition there had to be heavy speech delays under the age of 3. So I got the more flexible Asperger diagnosis. I am also online in a forum for all kind of autism, and gotta say, that many times its much easier for me to talk to people there, because many Aspergers still seem to much NT for me.

Its the same with you, so you say: "But we Aspies surely don't have speech delay." Most Aspies have... not critical one as a must have, but there are only few aspies who really dont have any speech delays at all. So in this example you would be the one outstanding.

So when there is nothing 100% exact criteria to separate the different autism forms, why insist of having something you cannot separate anyway.

They are also dropping classic autism I believe and making it all autism spectrum disorder. AS has always been a autism and so has PDD-NOS and they are making it all autism spectrum disorder. They are also getting rid of Rett's Syndrome and Childhood disintegrative disorder.

Good stuff I am tired of all this ambiguity, your autistic or your not, level 1, 2, or 3 level of functioning.

Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD is the future.

What was interesting was that both PDD-NOD and Aspergers both had the same diagnostic code (299.80) in the DSM-IV-TR
It seems highly unusual that they would give two different diagnosis' the same diagnostic code to begin with.
Yet once i heard that they were getting rid of both Aspergers and PDD-NOS i was like hmmm and wondered if they were given the same
code by those who knew they were only going to rid of them to begin with?
It really makes no sense to give the same number to 2 different diagnoses

While they are dropping the term Aspergers, people will have to be re-evaluated and either would be in HFA of the Autism spectrum, or they would go into the social communication disorder new category. Ifs possible some may be left with no diagnosis at all if they are high enough functioning

The change is stupid. Ignore DSM and its biased panel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger

"Despite this brief resurgence of interest in his work in the 1990s, AS remains a controversial and contentious diagnosis due to its unclear relationship to the autism spectrum."

"The World Health Organization's ICD describes AS as "a disorder of uncertain nosological validity",[12] and there is majority consensus to phase the diagnosis out of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnosis manual.[13]"


For Aspergers "study" only he observed conditions in 4 boys??? Why not do a more detailed study after that? If he did, where is a link to the study using more individuals if there is one?

They coined Aspergers knowingly that they were planning on doing away with the term. It doesn't make sense why they would have used Aspergers at all. Why not just put those into HFA?

Why make a temporary condition knowing it would be rid of?
As term for classification in between more research being worked on?

Aspergers' subjects really seem to be high functioning as is mentioned by the normal or above normal intelligence.
It sounds like the study was messed up since the subjects were all from the same area possibly same schooling or upbringing, which would explain why they all had above or average IQs.

His study should have been more diverse. Also he had noted the condition in himself, as a child. His upbringing on an isolated farm could have led to problems with social skills. (possible environmental autism, yet not severe)

He may have had too personal a stake in his own theory, i would have called in other doctors to help with a balanced study

So they are doing away with Rett's Syndrome? But isn't there like a HUGE difference in abilities between someone that was once classified as Aspie and someone diagnosed as Rett's. I get that they are both on the Spectrum. But it just seems that's not really fair to anyone to classify them all alike.

As for aspie/Autistm, that I get. HFA and Autism and Aspergers are very similar. And I think it will "legitimize" Asperger's for those that insist that "it's not really a problem" or "you cope well enough"