Is Aspergers going through a spin cycle?

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Anyone else think that aspergers syndrome is going through the spin cycle to include more people or to skew the syndrome itself?

what is skew ?

I dunno. I imagine a lot of people here would think I don't have asperger's and I have some in-laws that find it disgusting I claim it, but if anybody could go back in time and see me at age 5, they would know it's true.

I think people are just more aware of it, thank goodness.

There will also be some misdiagnoses and a very small minority who believe they have it but have HFA or PDD NOS or something else instead.

There are some great books out there now that pull together various bits of research and that helps to pin point the differences more accurately, so it should all become a lot clearer over time. I was reading something yesterday that explained my picture thinking very well and that was a book that was published only in the last year.

It depends on where you live, I guess.

Here, in the home of Professor Attwood, anyone with autism who can speak, and are of normal intelligence on standardized tests are being put under the AS label.

It's either "severe" (mostly nonverbal, "stimming" frequently, "aloof", etcetera), or Asperger's here, which includes "HFA" and AS.

I think it's only natural that scientific definitions adapt as new facts come to light and old ones are reinterpreted. I just read in Wikipedia that tumbleweed is likely to be reclassified by botanists, and we all still remember the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.