Heard this term for aspergers used a lot!

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For the reasons I've listed earlier. Please read them before asking more questions. Do some research - it is the general consensus of the medical, psychiatric and scientific communities that autism is much more than thinking differently. Every single human being on this planet thinks different to every other human. And yet there aren't billions of different classes of health problem based on those different ways of thinking? Why? Because autism is far, far more than just that.

That's not really true. There's plenty of research that shows that how humans think fits some rather predictable patterns. If everyone really thought differently from everyone else, we wouldn't be able to talk about things like confirmation bias, fundamental attribution errors, logical fallacies, or logic at all.

When discussing autism and how autistic people think differently, there are patterns to this different as well, and that autistic people think differently is often characterized as such a significant problem that it's only understandable for autistic people to push back on that.

I don’t agree with the fact that there is a metal of physical condition related to high functioning autistics – my understanding is that the path waves between the bazillion thought pattern routines simply are routed differently – so the only problem of heath would be stress which does cause physical and metal problems and to me the other is we tend to go forward in action with what is on our mind and don’t consider our body form which in the long run can cause joint problems like back problems - other than that it’s just a different brain makeup – maybe I’m not understanding what all is being said – we don’t need any more labels than we already have – just my thoughts

Patterns, yes, but not exactly the same. Autistics also share many patterns with NTs but it doesn't mean we think in the same way. The huge diversity in personalities proves that.

The way autistics think differently is also characteristic of our neurological differences. We process things differently to NTs, as our brains are wired differently. There is scientific evidence of a deficit of the frontal lobe, which processes social functions. That is not just a different way of thinking.

Google "autism comorbidity" and you will find an array of different health conditions affecting many people with autism.

Because employment advisors and job coaches have forms they must fill out. I'm not in the UK or in that field but even so I am almost certain there is a question on those forms that says something similar to, "does the job candidate have any health condition that must be taken into account when recommending a job?" They must write Aspergers Syndrome in the blank space next to that question. They are not there to parse out the differences between neurological condition, mental illness, infectious disease, chronic ailment etc. They simply need to specify if a job candidate has any health condition which should influence which jobs they are sent to interview for.

The employment advisors and job coaches don't need to know the subtle (or blatant) medical differences between the things that could come under the giant umbrella term "health condition". They just need to write anything in that blank that could be relevent to what job they send the person for.