Would you rather be aspergers or high funtioning autistic,.

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Why does your profile say "Have Aspergers-Diagnosed?"

Maybe he's just impressed. Whoever your avatar is is attractive.

I border on both. I seem more autistic than others with AS. But it doesn't bother me. I'm smart, creative, have friends and either way I'd still struggle a lot in life. My self help skills are behind and I really do break down over the slightest change. But being more mild AS wouldn't be much better. And I wouldn't want to be NT. I'm content with my interests. All I wish is to get a job and become independent.

I have PDD-NOS...and I think I rather have asperger's because having PDD-NOS is like walking an AS fence. I feel that I am not AS enough to fit well enough with aspies and I am not NT enough to be "normal". That is the story of my life. I am bisexual so the gay folks think I am a "fence straddler and cant decide if I am gay or straight" as one guy put it (which is not the case btw) Then in my hearing impaired classes...most of the kids were deaf, well I am hearing impaired, and they ignored me because I was not "deaf enough". Then the normal folks in middle school ignored me because I had to wear these auditory trainers which had pink braided wire going from my waist to my ears which looked like something out of some bad sci-fi flick. Well this advertized the fact I was in the deaf class...so they ignored me cause they thought I could not hear them.

I am tired of being stuck somewhere in the middle and not fitting in any definite catagory.
Sorry about my rant...had to get that out.

I'd rather be aspie too because I am more PDD-NOS but was given the aspie label because it was the closest match for a diagnoses. But he said I was on the spectrum so I don't think it matters since I see other people with that label too and they don't seem aspie either. In fact they seem more autistic than AS but me I am the opposite and some seem aspie than autistic but yet are diagnosed as autistic than AS. I think it's pretty messed up so I don't even care anymore what autism label I have.

I sometimes feel too aspie and I mostly feel not aspie enough.

I have autism. I want aspergers.

That's like asking "Would you rather be a girl or be female?"

Asperger's IS HFA. Especially if you define "high-functioning autism" as "autism without developmental delay".

Hes probably just making up a whole pack of lies.

There seems to be quite a few here who have major problems staying employed, smart or not. I was lucky that my jobs usually involved no coworkers. That stereotype that AS people have no problems needs to be "dragged behind the shed and hit with a shovel." -- To put us all out it's misery.

You get along well with people yet you're "high functioning autistic"? They're mutually exclusive (unless you mean family members and the odd person or two).

People with AS aren't any smarter than the average person, and it's the same with HFA. Neither one has any bearing on "smart" and "wealthy" in comparison to one another.

It's a stupid myth, that people with AS are all smart and wealthy computer programmers. Contrary to this, it's the opposite in regards to wealth (most with AS, let alone HFA, don't work), and AS/HFA just means normal intelligence.

The terms are interchangeable.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's even though I had late speech development, which would usually earn a diagnosis of HFA instead. But that's the only difference in terms of the diagnostic criteria! So why should I care? They're the same condition, and in a few years' time, they're finally being merged officially.

I dunno, I think they are kind of the same.

I'd rather BE an Aspie, but I'd call it high-functioning autism, to avoid confusion and having to explain it to people more, or to avoid teasing (ass-burgers)?? :L

well, i don't care how you call it, i'll probably be a sahm all my life. i want to work but i'm terrified. i'd probably be good at being a book translator or something, but i have no diploma because language diplomas involved orals. i can't do anything.......
so i don't see how i'm at an advantage to any other autistic person. when asked i'd rather say autism period. can't be having those "yeah sure........"looks you get when you say you're an aspie.

how am i supposed to know something like that? i am me, and i like certain parts about me, and other parts make me not amused

Same here. I was given that diagnosis even though I couldn't speak until I was 4. Go figure

I'm not diagnosed with either at the moment, but I suspect AS fits me better, depending on the exact interpretation of the criteria, and based on my VIQ being two standard deviations higher than my PIQ (however that could be due to cognitive features of my diagnosed AD/HD-PI instead).

Yes, I have problems thinking of jobs that I could do successfully, because of slow and cumbersome motor planning, slow automatisation of motor tasks, high sensitivity to pressure (making it too painful to unscrew tight things, press things together firmly etc.) a need to know what I'll be doing and when ahead of time to maintain low stress levels, getting confused by a lot of relevant things going on and changing around me, and being sometimes slow to realise what people mean, what they want me to do and what the underlying point behind systems and activities is.

My AD/HD is behind my educational underachievement, hence I acknowledged it and got it diagnosed first I suppose, but since then it's the above things that have meant that the lowest level jobs, which are the ones in which those problems cause the most trouble, seem out of my reach. I've had one low paying job that I am capable of, the one I have now, and it happens to dodge a lot of these issues, but most jobs I can apply for, like waitressing for example, will not dodge those problems. Until I can get fully qualified in something that suits me, I feel very limited, and there's no guarantee that the careers I'm now aiming for will work out either, as being good at a subject in class doesn't ensure success in the real world application of it.