Asperger's/ADHD Vs autism

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Although many say that there's no difference between Asperger's and autism, I think there is quite clearly a difference.

In this video is a clip about a special school for autistic adolescents, but this clip is focused on a 12-year-old boy diagnosed with Asperger's. You can sort of see that he has Asperger's (compared to his autistic peers I mean) by his ways, his body language, his likeness to a typical 12-year-old boy, and his voice tone, facial expressions and articulate speech. He seems very ADHD as well but this documentary is quite old now, when ADHD still wasn't always diagnosed along with Asperger's. Speaking of the documentary being quite old, they rabbit on about lack of empathy and all that s**t but I don't think his empathy is any different to any other boy of 12 here.
I've seen the whole documentary and the other children there seem much more pronounced with their autism than this kid. And it doesn't look like he's masking either. If I masked less when I was his age I probably would have behaved the same way at school, otherwise my speech, body language and other mannerisms were very much like his.


Oh, and I can relate to what he says at the very end of this video (at 7:16). It's heartbreaking.

Mainly Aspergers is considered autism due to same core traits, just at a lesser severity and because HFA (high functioning autism) was only differentiated from Aspergers by whether a speech delay was present or not.
It's differentiated by "levels" these days. ASD level 1 will indeed have a very different life experience than ASD level 3.

That's my understanding, anyway. I personally don't care if someone prefers the term Aspergers.

I've heard about people referring to themselves as "aspies" basically seeing themselves as superior to everyone else, including other autistic people. They're no better than white supremacists.

I may have referred to myself as "aspie" and snarked about NTs, but the last thing I want to be seen as is a supremacist even though I was born with white skin so it's virtually unavoidable. White people are evil and we are to blame for everything wrong with the world, think I'm happy about that?

But I digress. I'm too "normal" to be ND, too ND to be "normal". I was able to read at an early age but couldn't tie my shoes until I was 9.

When I was almost in my teens I'd get in trouble a lot for daydreaming at school and I'd be walking to school and become mesmerized by things like clouds or a bird singing in a tree and end up being late. I had a "conversation" with a robin one time. Asperger's, autism, ADHD, or "normal"?

Maybe if I had asked the robin where Batman was? I didn't.

I don't feel supreme to anyone. But it just is what it is. I also sit on the "too autistic to be NT, too NT to be autistic" line. I don't always know who I am at times. Identity issues maybe.

The differences is very clear to me, too.
I'm only an autistic without ADHD, who, well, I can pass for an aspie.

It's this... Executive Dysfunction overlaps and common reactive circumstances because of that had made two labels seemingly relatable.


As for Asperger's...
The only reason why I'm not labelled with autism at first all because of the lack history of speech delay.


I am utterly certain that I'm never NT. I have zero doubts that I'm not allistic in any way.

I just don't tie "dysfunctional" or "not passing" with being "more neurodivergent".

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