gaktkr wrote:
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.
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?
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AQ 31
Your Aspie score: 100 of 200 / Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 101 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
What would these results mean? Been told here I must be a "half pint".