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“I think I would say, if the term Asperger’s helps you describe yourself and gives you community, use it,” Catherine Lord, who is on the DSM-5 committee, tells me. “The fact that we’re changing the medical diagnosis … Most people who use Asperger’s would not have met the DSM-IV criteria, so they’re using the term already as a colloquial term. And that’s fine. I don’t think anyone wants to take that away, it just isn’t a medical diagnosis. If someone needs someone to cut them slack, whether they have Asperger’s or not, that’s something they need to negotiate with their spouse.”
Ha. Amusing, to say the least (I've read it before, but each time I see it I laugh).
She obviously thinks most of the vocal and self-diagnosed "aspies" don't have it.
You know I had something witty to say but I am generally tired of the NT assumption that if you don't drool, can tie your shoes and are proportioned appropriately anything you do out of the norm is you being rude.
