DeaconBlues wrote:
And the way you put it - that according to this formulation, "there's no such thing as Asperger's" - is a bit like those who claim I can't have AS because I wasn't diagnosed as a child - when DSM-II was still the latest word, and there wasn't even such a category in there as "high-functioning autistic"; if you could talk, you didn't get the diagnosis. AS still existed, it just didn't have a label, so instead I was just "weird". (My junior-high principal tried to tell me that I was "eccentric", but as I explained to him, in order to be "eccentric", you have to be rich enough that people will ignore the odd things you do and say. Not being rich, I was "weird".)
I guess I could be the same way, as late as the early 90's, a psychologist said "if there were such a thing as a little bit autistic," that would fit me. During childhood, I was too high functioning for an autism diagnosis, as I talked and had an above average IQ. It wasn't until I was 28 that I was able to get the official Asperger's diagnosis, after a therapist I was seeing for PTSD suggested I get evaluated for it.
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