I am not sure what i am...

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...i was diagnosed when i was 6 but i don't know exactly which part of the ASD i am...either hfa or aspergers or pdd-noss...what do you think???i think i am probably aspergers but i don't know exactly -nobody knows that i know that i am in the spectrum...Can you help me???

Yes, I can help you. But I don't know who you are very well so I do not know what symptoms you may have that may relate to aspergers or anything else. So I am unable to help you at this moment.

I think when they change the official diagnostic criteria next year, they are planning to drop these different categories, and just stick to the single description "autism spectrum condition"... a lot of the differences between these categories were fairly minor, and were often applied according to individual psychiatrists' personal opinions.

For instance, according to the old DSM-IV criteria, a research study showed only one in a few thousand people exactly fitted the description for Asperger, therefore a lot of people got given other diagnoses. Nowadays, specialists use broader criteria, and so the rate is about one in two hundred.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it's mostly just words, and truth be told there are probably as many different ways of being autistic as there are autistic people.