Medical Why is Asperger's considered a form of autism?

[misnderstudge]

i am not an expert at all, but my brother has aspergers and the way i would describe it is, if you take someone who is blind no vision at all and never had, and someone with 6/6 vison. a blind being autism and 6/6 being aspergers. 6/6 they can see the world they can see out side there small bubble but not like someone with 20 20. it is hard to get around talk about themselves get help and so on while a blind person can't make sense of the world at all really they need help from a dog a carer or whatever not sure if that makes sense so i do agree with it. the help you give is different when i worked in care before i became a EMT, what i would do when i met someone for the first time, i would speck to them as a "normal" person and see there reaction, it is the best way to talk to sufferers. don't speck to them as a child until you can see plainly the have the mental age of a child it can be frustrating for them if you do and make them very uneasy

 

[B220]

I think there are still way too many misconceptions about Autisic Spectrum Disorders. Too many falsehoods being spread around as facts and too many generalizations for a "spectrum" of the disorders.

I think aspergers is considered autism because they both display key symptoms, and people with aspergers are affected differently, one person may just display bits and pieces of social blindness while another may not even make eye contact their whole life.

I think its just a process of understanding the two, things change as we learn more about it.

but I think I remembering somewhere about researcher decrypting the autism genome and both aspergers and autism share the same deletions and alterations in key sections of the DNA.

 

[B220]

i am not an expert at all, but my brother has aspergers and the way i would describe it is, if you take someone who is blind no vision at all and never had, and someone with 6/6 vison. a blind being autism and 6/6 being aspergers. 6/6 they can see the world they can see out side there small bubble but not like someone with 20 20. it is hard to get around talk about themselves get help and so on while a blind person can't make sense of the world at all really they need help from a dog a carer or whatever not sure if that makes sense so i do agree with it. the help you give is different when i worked in care before i became a EMT, what i would do when i met someone for the first time, i would speck to them as a "normal" person and see there reaction, it is the best way to talk to sufferers. don't speck to them as a child until you can see plainly the have the mental age of a child it can be frustrating for them if you do and make them very uneasy

Yeah I don't like it when people talk to me like I am unintelligent. LOL most people with autism have above average intelligence... they may take you talking to them as a child like an insult... just like anyone else would.

 

[B220]

Someone was saying that high functioning autistics don't try socializing as much as aspergers individuals? I was just thinking about personality traits. Wouldn't that play into an individuals differences between autistic people and such? Like, introversion and extroversion and shyness?

I don't think personality types play into autism... but i guess that's why its considered a spectrum since autism is displayed rather differently among individuals who have it.

the only time personality is taken into consideration would be when the personality is disruptive and it would then be categorized as a personality disorder.