What's happened to Aspergers?

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Hi I was just wondering what's actually happened to Aspergers and people who have been diagnosed with it in terms of socially and medically speaking?

I don't know a huge amount about Aspergers but I feel the effects that it has on me. My mum told me I was diagnosed when I was 7 which was 12 years ago.

Many thanks.

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My doctor uses Asperger's and Autism Spectrum Disorder interchangeably. But I guess we all have to wait and see how it plays out over the long run.

Thaaaaaats really hard to say. As with social interaction, most aspies do terrible, but occationally make some long time friends. They also sometimes do really well with people, and everyone around them look up to them, but they themselves don't feel connected. You progress socially depends on your self confidence, which is totally up to you. People treat confidence like air. Whoever has low self confidence has a sort of vacuum. They like to succor off those with high self confidence. So they do what they do, look up to them, try to befriend them, and ultimately follow them.

Basically as an aspie you can look and act as ridiculous as you want. As long as your completely comfortable with yourself, are completely comfortable with social failure, AND display yourself as either a fully emotionally independent individual, or as a leader, people will notice that, disregard whatever puts them off by your first impression, and they will like you. It's mainly a subconscious thing. When you display the message "I like myself." to others regardless of all the degrading antics in our society, it makes people doubt their own opinions and trust in your own.

Many aspies don't realize this, and put themselves under the knife of society for most of their lives.
Others decide to be exactly who they want to be, decide to love themselves, and flourish in social situations, but they just don't connect as well.

Medically speaking, I have no idea. People are still trying to come up with a cure here and there, and neurotypical parents get excited at the sound, but most of the autistic communitiy is telling everyone looking for a cure to go away because many of us like our autism. Again, it depends on your self confidence.

Other medical related subjects are that it's common for people who get diagnosed with autism or aspergers to have another disorder with it. Like some people have bi-polar disporder and aspergers. Others have add, and autism. Etic. Mix and match.

it doesn't kill you, it doesn't make you weak or sickly.
It often inhibits motor skills, but that can be overcome through training if sports or physical activity are important to you. (I did.)

Ummmmm... I think it's something to be proud of. I mean it's blessed my life tremendously be showing me from a third person perspective what people are ACTUALLY doing in relationships. So much superficial hogwash. It's ridiculous, but I really learned why people were willing to be so ridiculous, and learned a lot about myself.
Many people credit their autism/aspergers for making them as brilliant as they are today. I agree with almost all of them.

"Asperger's" has been assimilated into the Autistic Disorders Spectrum under DSM-V, and adds its distinctions to perfecting the Autistic definition.

Resistance was futile.

In the United States, the medical community has a set standard involving catagories, terms to call things by, etc.

The people involved decided to stop using the term "Asperger's Syndrome" and lump that and some other catagories together under the term "autism". Possibly "high functioning autism".

This website continues to use the term "Asperger's", some groups and organizations still use the term, and in some countries there's been no change.

I don't claim to be a doctor or anything, but my take on it is this-
If some official group decided that nobody should be called "left-handed" for whatever reason, people who are left handed would still use that term, and so would plenty of other people.

Your symptoms are still your symptoms, and formerly that collection of symptoms was given the name "Asperger's Syndrome".

You tell me-
Official terms or not, ARE you still an Aspie?

Hugh Borg and Annika Hansen disagree.

the loss of the 'term' aspergers sickens me, those that promulgated such a move should be ashamed of themselves, we have been done a great dis-service and so has Hans Asperger.

how the heck cold and distant (and endlessly repetitive) autists can be jumbled up with aspis that often crave company and friendship and can also think and 'see' .... beggars belief.

to resist futile ? ..... BS ! !

I think you're generalizing a bit. I'm pretty sure autists can think and see. And how do you know that autists don't crave company and friendship?

The gubment came and took my Asperger's!

But seriously, aren't there countries that dont use the DSM?

People will just have to get used to their new labels.

We are still aspies until somewhere in 2015!

I don't think the OP is talking about the changes to the DSM, though I initially thought that when reading the thread title.

(If you're not in America, or any other countries that use the DSM, then the diagnosis still exists).

Rather, he/she was talking about outcomes for people with Asperger's. Only Dannyboy answered the question.

I do not feel confident in answering.

Aspergers still exists, definitely!