Aspergers and Autism
More alike than unlike is the usual jazz of late. Which means that there's impairments in the few core areas that make up "Autism" (social, repetitive behaviours, and communication, for example), but the two different labels describe two groups that manifest these core areas differently.
Whether there's a point to differentiate these two groups or not based on something such as aloof behaviour compared to odd and eccentric behaviour is the usual topic of contention by various professionals and institutes.
Personally, Infantile Autism and Asperger's as they're defined, and based on Wing's original paper/clinical account, point out two manifestations of a similar or the same disorder. There was no clear consensus within her paper, however, other than saying that it was similar to Infantile Autism (probably the same thing as Schizoid Personality Disorder too), and that one child she posted an account of started off with Infantile Autism and actually showed the symptoms of Asperger's Disorder as he aged (in elementary school and prior, he was clearly showing signs of Infantile Autism).
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