I see your point. In the first place, a person who's extremely verbally competent ain't got autism, period.
What of an Aspergers person who's extremely verbally competent, then totally looses verbal/speech ability at say 30 years old, and also develops marked stimming, much much worse sensory symptoms, much much worse social difficulties, and becomes far less able to take care of daily tasks like self-care, eating, cleaning, and the like? Is this something that happens to Aspergers people? Or, like a post some gave above, would this be something else?
Fuzzy wrote:
more likely it would be attributed or diagnosed as something else.