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What is your relation to autism/aspergers?

What is your relation to autism/aspergers?

  • I'm autistic

  • My spouse is autistic

  • My child is autistic

  • My relative is autistic

  • I know someone autistic


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IowaLutheran

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Wow, I just noticed this forum. My 9 year old son was diagnosed a few months ago with Aspergers. He is very bright, nice young man, but seems to miss out on social cues and cannot control his behavior sometimes. My wife has been reading up on it but I haven't yet. I look forward to discussing things with all of you.
 
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My husband says he thinks I have Asperger's. I do not want the label.

Those of you who have been diagnosed with this: I would be curious to know what it means for you, and how you cope with it in terms of everyday functioning, such as jobs.

I don't think that is too far off the OP since the question is "what is your relation to...."

sucribing to this thread in order to see your responses

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PaladinValer said:
I couldn't vote. I have aspurger's, but I am definitely not autistic. There are great differences between them.
When I said "autistic" I meant being part of the "autistic spectrum" (which includes autism, aspergers, fragile x, ect.). I didn't mean only autism. :)
 
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Aspurger's Syndrome isn't on the Autism spectrum. It used to be considered the "highest functioning form" of Autism, but that is old news. Since the 1980's, it has been given its own category due to the major differences between the two disabilities.
 
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PaladinValer said:
Aspurger's Syndrome isn't on the Autism spectrum. It used to be considered the "highest functioning form" of Autism, but that is old news. Since the 1980's, it has been given its own category due to the major differences between the two disabilities.
I'm sorry, every site I went to listed aspergers in the same "catagory" as autism. I know that aspergers isn't the "same" as autism, but both are in the "same" catagory as of early 2005. Out of thousands, not ONE website said that aspergers was in another category. Every website put autism and aspergers in the same category. I will not debate this further.
 
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It is true that it is listed as being part of the autistic spectrum, but scientists are wondering if there are many different types of so called autism that are quite different, have different cuases, or groupes of causes. For the moment it's still speculation, so officially there is just one spectrum. In a few years that will change.
 
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