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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some info to explain:

http://www.behavioral.net/article/asperger-s-diagnosis-disappears-will-treatment-disappear-too[/quote]

OP here, thanks, this was a good read. I admit I personally have no idea the difference between Asperger's/autism/high functioning autism in terms of what those different signifiers meant for symptoms/characteristics. At a blind guess I would have assumed Asperger's was high IQ and intellect, academically successful, but had some quirks and social issues, and probably same for high functioning autism, and that autism in general was the label for the kids who experience the stims/repetitive behaviors/etc and perhaps struggle more than Aspergers or HFA. It actually is confusing I guess when I think of it that way- but simply saying they are all on the spectrum in varying places does seem to make more sense. [/quote]

No Aspergers is more complicated than your blind guess. This description does not capture Asoergers at all or the associated challenges. [/quote]

I think that was the OP's point -- that she (and, according to the article linked above, many professionals) don't have a good idea of the parameters of Asperger's, and that's why they got rid of it in favor of tiers of severity of autism.[/quote]

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