Showing posts with label autism vs aspergers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autism vs aspergers. Show all posts

January 22, 2014

Autism vs Asperger's

If you hang around here a lot, you'll know I refer to myself as Autistic (with a capital A) and not Asperger's. There are a couple of reason's for this:

One, despite how I may appear and how much I can relate to Aspies, my diagnosis is autistic.

Two, the Asperger's diagnosis got swallowed up under ASD and I think we all might as well get used to just saying ASD.

Finally, there are some Aspie's with superiority complexes and I'm not interested in being in their club.

Yes, I do frequent a lot of Asperger's groups/communities, mostly because I "get" them and I think they "get" me. In fact, I've never really felt quite as home anywhere else and they are the closest to it. But I'm technically not an Aspie.

I jokingly refer to myself as Aspie at times for simplification, but that's about it.



If you have a diagnosis of Asperger's, are you hanging onto the title?