Aspergers

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Is Aspergers really Autism now? Do people get sensory problems from Aspergers? Do they get easily angry & can’t control it?

Today, Asperger’s doesn’t really exist as a label anymore. Most people are just diagnosed with autism instead depending on where they live.

Since Asperger’s was technically a form of autism, people get sensory problems from Asperger’s too.

Asperger's started being an official diagnosis in 1994, under the DSM IV, and continued to be an official diagnosis there until 2013, when the DSM-V came out.

Asperger's is still an official diagnosis under the ICD-10--but might not be under the ICD-11.

The DSM-V is most frequently used in the US, though the ICD-10 is also used fairly frequently.

The ICD-10 is most commonly used outside the US---where the DSM-V is rarely used.

So I should be an Autism. Do they easily get angry & can’t control it?

Everybody gets angry. Most people can control it, including people with autism.

It might be harder for people with autism to control it, though.

Are you diagnosed officially? We have trouble regulating our emotions but Aspergers is part of autism spectrum but isn't be diagnosed anymore apparently. You may be mixing up anger with anxiety which is common particularly with those on the spectrum. To NT's, it looks very much like anger which is why its very difficult to explain these things.

Asperger's and autism have basically the same symptoms. The only difference was that with Asperger's, you couldn't have a speech delay or be intellectually disabled.

I find it kind of bizarre.
I first entered the mental health system in 93, exited that system in about 98. Lots of misdiagnosis in there. And Asperger's "didn't exist" at the beginning of it.
Fast forward, I figured out I have Asperger's recently, basically right after it was removed from the dsm.
I find it kind of funny and fitting in the tragic/comic sense.

I always thought Aspergers was more of a "high functioning" version of Autism. I don't find any difference between the two labels.

If Asperger's was just autism back in the nineties I don't think I would have been diagnosed with autism. They probably would have focused more on the ADHD or just the anxiety.

I do think there should be a seperate diagnostic label for people like me, that isn't on the autism spectrum. Things like Fragile-X share some autism traits but isn't on the autism spectrum, so I think Asperger's should be the same. I hate being associated with autism because autism means "self" and I am not self-absorbed or disconnected from others and I can engage with others and understand emotions, etc. But I still struggle in this world.