difference between Asperger's and high functioning autism

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Yeah, I know.

But the fictional character was based on several people with HFA (I read this from the psychiatrist who helped make the character).

And for the ladies out there:

Snow Cake: HFA (or AS if you don't notice the small differences)

^ excuse my ignorance... but who is Snow Cake?

Snowcake is a canadian movie staring sigourney weaver as Linda, a women with autism. Basically a guy gives her daughter a lift in his car, and then there's a car wheck and the daugter dies. He feels abliged to say sorry to her and then feels abliged to stay and "look after" her when she doesn't seem to care that her daughter has died.

It's a very good movie and i think you should watch it

Some movie that has a lady with AS/HFA in it (Sigourney Weaver plays the part), who likes eating snow.

its way too hard to group out the differences between those two, i notice people with HFA have more self help skills problems, usually have no special interest, usually have a language delay of some sort, usually have more sensory issues then someone with AS, and usually people with HFA have more cognitive impairments or delays then someone with AS. Thats all not the case though because the spectrum is so wide and there are people diagnosed with AS whom may have no special interest, whom have had language delay, whom has severe sensory problems, so you cant always tell a difference. I say its all autism either way.

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While we're on the subject of comparing HFA to AS, can someone tell me where the idea the autism is a left-brained issue while AS is a right-brained issue?

If you go to "PubMed" and search their articles for something like, "Asperger's Autism (HFA) hemisphere", you'll get the latest findings on such (a 2009 study).

HFA affects the left side, whereas AS is the right side, as per the study. Behavioural psychos/psychics probably don't like these findings, as it points to a distinct entity for each.

I just did it, here's a partial quote:

So you're thinking the verbal/performance gap might be diagnostic, to show dominance of left or right brain? This would allow for low-functioning Asperger's, with self-help skill delay; as well as high functioning autism with no speech delay due to general intelligence allowing speech development at a normal time.

It would be interesting; it would unlink "functioning level" from diagnosis altogether. Could be a good thing.

Isn't the right hemisphere the emotional side, whereas the left is the logical side?

It's often mentioned that although future research might find validity in distinguishing between AS and HFA, or other subgroups, any diagnostic distinctions would not necessarily be based on validity alone, since there might be too big an overlap in treatment response or outcome for it to be useful. Also, if there is some use in the distinction, this might only apply during certain stages of development.

hmm.. I'm not sure if i'm AS or HFA now... At school on the file it says that i've been Dx'ed with AS and HFA, but I think that i'm going to stick with the assumption that i'm a cable sqoouf!