Michelle Sagara

As near as I can understand, much of the difference comes down to significant pragmatics language dysfunction. While "Asperger's" was used in relation to my son's diagnosis, in reality, based on his level of dysfunction (at age five, speaking in very short, uncomplicated sentences, pretty much subject, verb, object, bottom 1 percentile on a language pragmatics test), I'd say he was high functioning autism, not Asperger.