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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy
Aspergers is no longer an official diagnosis in the UK - essentially there's no such thing. It's just "ASD without learning disability".
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Too right. If anything people with Asperger’s tend to be more intelligent than the average person almost inherently and that’s well-established: I know the most recent version of the DSM canned it but it does still get used unofficially by people who’d rather identify with that than a label which makes it sound like they have special needs. But then every third person doing bits on TikTok these days wants be autistic or otherwise neurodivergent these days and self-pathologise even the most normal of traits. It’s ridiculous. I’m not 100% sold on the validity of the concept of ASD (not just because the spectrum’s so broad) but that’s a completely different discussion altogether. I won’t go into that now. But what I do know is that I’d rather not call people autistic unless there was a reason for it or it was their preference. If I can refer to someone as having Asperger’s (sometimes just ASD), I will.
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