Similarity and differences of spectrum children ,

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Hi , is there in any stretch of the imagination , differences between children aspies and other spectrums , or are they just adjectives habitually used ?m

Could you rephrase this question so that readers from planet Earth can understand what you are asking?

yes sir, does anyone reckon that aspies are seriously different , from other children on the spectrum ? Aren't they all having the same challenges , with the same approach to resolve these issues ? Thnx

Are aspie children different from other children....on the spectrum (not from NT kids, or "kids in general").

Well yes aspie children are different from NT kids and they are not quite the same as autistic children of type 3.

The next part of your question is essentially "are all aspie children like each other?".

Well...no kind of child comes with an "owner's manual". It would be nice if babies did come with an owners manual but they dont. Aspie are probably not exactly like each other. Like we all always say here on WP "if you meant one aspie you have met one aspie".

Same goes for children. But there are probably general thing large numbers of aspie children have in common as issues growing up.

How are aspie children different from other kids on the spectrum ? This is simply what I am asking .

Um they may not share the same symptoms or they may have different degrees of their symptoms and have different obsessions and have their own personality. Some might appear normal than others. For some their condition may be more obvious and for others it may be harder to tell.

I knew one aspie boy who knew idioms and used them and he also told his own jokes. But he was picky about food and only liked one type of mac and cheese his mother made and only liked eggs his mother made, he did not like shirts snug on him, he didn't like his head touched, couldn't stay asleep all night but could at my house, he used sarcasm, he took some things literal. He seemed like a normal boy but he had a behavior disorder and he could turn it off and on and I think his ODD was his main problem than AS. He also had anxiety too and acted like he got angry easily. But he only did that at his house. I heard he acted worse at school and acted better around his father but I saw him act bad to his mother. He acted bad to my brothers too at our house.

I knew one other boy who I am sure was aspie but he didn't do any repetitive behaviors. Neither did the other one I just told you about but he liked jumping on his bed so that could have been one of them but he only did it at his house. He was very quiet and didn't talk a lot or ramble on about his interests, he didn't understand lot of things, whenever he talked it always sounded like he was whining, he didn't like to be touched so he would shout 'don't', you couldn't even have a conversation with him and he acted self centered and when he did talk to you he would just ignore your questions, he always had an aide with him helping him with school work, he had a hard time following rules because he didn't understand, he had a hard time with understanding directions, he didn't have any friends so he always walked around on the playground during recess. I have no idea if he would meet the ASD criteria or the social communication disorder.

Is this the kind of answer you were looking for?

I believe the classic distinction came down to language delay: those with Asperger's Syndrome didn't have a delay in starting to talk; those with classic Autism did.

This is because the kids Asperger described were often precocious talkers, albeit pedantic, while the kids Kanner described had delayed speech.

Once Autistic kids start talking, though, I think differences come down to the individual, being functions of personality, interests, experiences, etc. There's a big list of autistic traits and while everyone on the spectrum displays some of them, I don't think anyone displays all of them, and the ones displayed will vary from individual to individual.

Like Dr. Stephen Shore said: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.”

I think the OP means how children are depending on the severity of their ASD.

Based on having always been in schools for kids on the autism spectrum, I would say that we are all in that school for basically the same reason. And we all have the same or very simular issues (to different degrees). And the entire classroom of aspies and classic and pdd etc receive the same overall approach (along with individual attention). And I'd say the same applies to the occupational therapy we receive.