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Aspergers means no language delay.Autism means there is a languge delay.Am i right?

What if a person started talking normally, but then stopped.And when he started again, he just spelt things out loud?

would this be a more aspergers or autism thing? or maybe something else completly?

Probably aspergian... but it sounds like you're trying to cut clearly something which is not meant to be clear-cut.

It is never that simple.
Life is never that simple.
Things just aren't that boolean.

I think that an interruption is considered a delay. Someone who knows more than me should be along soon to clear this up.

Sounds like autism to me. Quite a few people with Kanner autism seem to start speaking, then stop, then start again later - sometimes in a strange and unconventional way. This may be one of the reasons why people associate autism with the MMR - kid starts talking, gets MMR, and then stops. It's a coincidence, but the parents don't always see it that way.

It's not kanners autism.

He is my older brother (now 19) who also is on the spectrum.

He talks normal now, but back when he was 2-3 he would spell things (yes he could read).

I'm just wondering if anyone knows what this is or if they've done anything similar?

I vote for classical autism.

I've just recently had a conversation that it is typical for autistic children to develop speech and then lose the already developed speech. That must all be before age... 3?

AS is usually defined as using language adequately between ages 2 and 3.

demoluca: Do you mean your brother could spell words before he had age-appropriate speech? Have you looked into a thing called 'hyperlexia' yet?

I'll check for an article in a sec and post it, if I still have it. (I'm not sure I can find it again?)

Edit: Not sure how reliable this article is. http://www.hyperlexia.org/hyperlexia.html

I'm not sure whether it mentions, but AS/classical seem possibly comorbid to hyperlexia.

But I think if your brother lost language it could be classical (kanner's) by definiton. Or, if a professional would think he's too hf or too atypical or too whatever to fit kanner's or AS, then maybe he could have PDD-NOS. (If this diagnosis exists where you live.)

But in the end I'm so not a professional of course.

What if the child had hearing loss, so they stopped talking when they were a year and a half and then they got tubes put in their ears and they were speech delayed because they had been deaf for so long even though it had only been nine months?


Would you still say autism or AS?

Oh we were talking about someone? I thought we were talking about a fake person as a what if. So I used myself as an example.

They said I was and I asked my shrink how would she know, since she is a specialist. She said deaf kids wouldn't turn out like this. She said it was a coincidence too. Hey I have relatives who may have AS too but I'm not sure if they do or not. I have no clue what they were like in their childhood is why.