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.
Asperger's at one point was frequently used interchangeably with the phrase "high functioning autism"; I have no idea how that's changed, though. When my son was diagnosed, Asperger's was part of the PDD spectrum (Pervasive Developmental Disorder), which also included ADD and ADHD and a number of other things. At some point between then and now, terminology and classifications changed, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) began to be used instead. Asperger children are not always precociously verbal; my son was.
But I've seen ASD children who, when they are willing to interact, are much more socially compliant or comfortable than my oldest son (will, for instance, come running to the door when they hear it open, will greet people or interact with people in a room); they are often not interested in interaction.
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Date: 2011-05-29 12:17 am (UTC)Asperger's at one point was frequently used interchangeably with the phrase "high functioning autism"; I have no idea how that's changed, though. When my son was diagnosed, Asperger's was part of the PDD spectrum (Pervasive Developmental Disorder), which also included ADD and ADHD and a number of other things. At some point between then and now, terminology and classifications changed, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) began to be used instead. Asperger children are not always precociously verbal; my son was.
But I've seen ASD children who, when they are willing to interact, are much more socially compliant or comfortable than my oldest son (will, for instance, come running to the door when they hear it open, will greet people or interact with people in a room); they are often not interested in interaction.