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[quote=Anonymous] This is from Tony Attwood, the Asperberger's specialist. Note that it takes 80 of the symptoms to get an actual Asperger's Diagnosis. There are lots and lots of self-diagnosed people who misunderstand that they have some Asperger's traits, but not actual Asperger's. Then their are clinicians simply not following the guidelines strictly. Not that a totally NT will have at least 10 autism traits.

http://parentingaspergers.com/blog/parents-issues/tony-attwood-on-aspergers-syndrome/

[b]The 100 Piece Autism Spectrum Jigsaw Puzzle[/b]
Tony talked about the diagnosis process as being a jigsaw puzzle, here’s what he said about making a diagnosis:
“It’s almost like having a mental check-list that you’re identifying. Now, all the characteristics of Asperger’s exist in the ordinary population. A typical person who is not perfect at reading body language, doesn’t have hundreds of friends, who may not like the noise when you note down on the blackboard, etcetera. So, what makes the condition significant is not a unique characteristic but the strength and dominance and effect of certain characteristics. So we’re doing a check-list of them. Now I say that it’s like completing a 100-piece jigsaw puzzle and there are certain essential social relatedness bits and pieces. But 80 or more pieces of the 100-piece jigsaw puzzle makes the diagnosis.
I’ve never met anyone with all 100, but I’ve never met a typical person with less than 10. So basically, I’m counting them up through the assessment, but the issue then incurs if it’s 80 or more to be diagnosed, what do you do with someone who got say, 70 to 80 pieces? So more than the ordinary population, but not quite enough to confirm the diagnosis. They’re in a grey area, what we call sub-clinical, but may still benefit from some of the strategies for the fragments that they have. So that sort of person I would say they have fragments of Asperger’s syndrome and need help for the fragments they have.”[/quote]

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