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From personal experience, although it was about a decade ago, my doctor referred to it as Aspergers but put it down as high functioning autism. This was in the
by PlutoIsAPlanet 2y ago
From personal experience, although it was about a decade ago, my doctor referred to it as Aspergers but put it down as high functioning autism.
This was in the UK though.
- runarberg 2y agoI’m guessing old habits die hard, especially among the expert classes. I think the ICD-11 standard (which is used in Europe instead of DSM-V) didn’t make the merge until a couple of years ago. Although as far as I’m aware psychiatrists generally use the DSM internally in their work, and mostly refer to ICD for e.g. insurance reasons. Also—since I talking about this—I think many in the neuro-divergence community don’t like High Functioning Autism either (and it is not included in any of the diagnostic tools anyway). The reason cited is that it is rather ableist to call it “high functioning” and would much rather focus on the specif disabilities which needs accommodating.