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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]

Op here, exactly. My original post was curious why more specific diagnoses and labels were done away with but when someone told me that they weren't used consistently and had arbitrary deviations that made it difficult for uniform use, I looked at my own not very informed perceptions of those labels and realized that was true. I am fully aware of those previously used labels had specific characteristics that I and others who didn't use them frequently weren't aware of. So now it makes more sense to me why all are just "on the spectrum" and severity is denoted but not specialized labels. [/quote]

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