Coming up with a new word for "aspergers"

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"Specificism"
We have a tendency to draw our attention to details rather than big pictures. We think lgically and methodically, taking into account all the details we draw our attentin to. So maybe people on the Autism sideof the spectrum can be called Specificists and people on the ADD side can be Generalists.
I also have a problem with the name Asperger syndrome. Hans Asperger originally called it Autistic Psychopathy. Why did they name it after someone who thinks Autism is a disease?!

It wasn't named for that reason. It was named in the traditional manner after the person first classifying or documenting it - hence Asperger's Syndrome; Einstein's theory; Newton's laws, Planck's constant etc.
Look on the bright side: he might have been named Erasmus Sick, or Quasimodo von Shagnasty...

asperger also said genius required a touch of autism

also to all you young people out there who dont like ASD's being viewed a disorder.in the early 1980's people with as or hfa were locked up in state hospitals and juvenile delinquent homes and they threw away the key.its only because of those "awfull curebee's" that brought services and treatments that you young people take for granted.that is a lot of why you young folks are so succesfull today

The DSM-5 is fixing this: how about

"Level 1 Autism Spectrum Disorder"

True, it will no longer be officially known as Asperger's in the psychiatric community. But...I bet it will take a long time for the term Asperger's or Aspie to go away. Many of us (who like the terms) will probably continue using them. However, there are times that I do refer to myself as autistic rather than an Aspie. So in some ways, the new DSM may make things easier---and perhaps some things more difficult.

As I said the DSM V is supporting a state of over-generalization and it is making things even more generalized still. Autism is basically a scattershot attempt at diagnosing many different things as all coming under one great fold. It's rubbish. They might as well put all the different symptoms of every psychiatric disorder on a cork notice board and thrown darts at it whilst blindfolded.

Also if anyone tells me I can't look at the bigger picture better than most people again they need a good rescuing from the Land of fairies.

Again, Gedrene.

I hate the concept that autism is a nice, straight line... that you can be clearly at point 1, 2 or three along it. The whole idea that is is a linear spectrum is wrong.

Autistics have various areas in which they are more, or less, disabled. Dependent on the mix, they may function better or worse in the current NT society.

I state that I am diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.

I accept (with some reservation) being informally an aspie.

I describe myself as autistic.

thats why i like idiot savant because the titles are meaningless anyway

But the problem with that is that you have the "savant" part. Most autistics are not "savant"(knowledgeable) at all.

It's more the inability (unwillingness?) to operate in the conventional, social, normal ways.

most autistics are very smart.sensory overload makes comunicating there inteligence verbaly dificult