How would you put this person on the autism spectrum?

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I'm in the life skills classroom with this young adult named Eric. Eric is 21 years old and has brown hair and wears glasses. When he's not in the hospital helping around, he does well in school, usually gets A's on his report card. The challenge for him is social skills and reading the cues. Eric has poor social skills/cues and doesn't talk or want to look at anybody right into the eyes. If you touch Eric he would get on the floor and kick you in the legs. Eric has narrow but strong interest in video games and... that pretty much it. Eric mostly a Nintendo type of video gamer. I knew he had autism along when I started to know him more and was right all this time when my teachers in the life skills classroom said Eric was diagnosed with autism.


With this information, where would all of you auties/aspies place Eric in the autism spectrum? Eric strikes me as HF but not Aspergers.

No one was to take the risk and give this guy level in the autism spectrum?

I'm not aware whether there is some sort of One-to-Ten scale on which you can rate functionality. I would consider a 21 year old who falls to the floor and kicks when touched to be less than High Functioning. That's extremely immature for a 21 year old.

OTOH, if he can dress himself and go to the toilet alone, and carry on reasonably intelligent conversation, then he's not especially Low Functioning, either.

I don't know anything about his personally life but that moment when he just went on the floor and kick me made me think he's not the most mature person in the world. And to ask where this occurred in school, it was during a game called "Uncle Sam" where you tell anyone a free pass if they are wearing whatever f**k you want, shoes, red shirt or blue eyes. Those who don't get a free run has to get passed by the tagger and if tag, they have to come to tagger side and do the same thing that the tagger does. I tag him and this strange and depressing moment came. When where in gym and playing basketball, he alone by himself playing the basketball.

Kinda hard to tell where he might fit....He sounds both Classic Autism AND Aspergers, in ways....maybe PDD - NOS?...

Maybe he is PDD-NOS in ways. I been thinking this is what I have but want to make sure to the psychologist at the school to chi-chat about this subject.


What ways makes you think he sounds Aspergers?

If he is able to help out at a hospital, THAT is the reason I wondered about higher- functioning Autism. Sounds like a strange case, though...

From my personal experience, I would say PDD-NOS.

Sure does sound like odd

Why does it matter?

Anyway, this is not enough information, IMO, to give him a label. He sounds to be in the high-functioning end (even if he is moderate or severe high-functioning, I would still say he is high-functioning--HF doesn't necessarily mean mild). To say he has Aspergers, autism, or PDDNOS, it is necessary to know more about his developmental history/childhood. A person with severe AS and HFA would act in quite the same manner, I think.