>> This is a common misconception. Asperger's wasn't folded into the parent category, instead those who were diagnosed with Asperger's, and the symptom constell

>> This is a common misconception. Asperger's wasn't folded into the parent category, instead those who were diagnosed with Asperger's, and the symptom constellation it represented, were folded into the parent category. > That's what I said. False! Here's what you said: > Asperger's wasn't "abandoned," it was folded into the broader spectrum of autism ... Your claim above is that the condition known as Asperger Syndrome was folded into the autism category. In fact, those individuals with the Asperger diagnosis were folded into the autism category (strictly speaking, only 45% of them, under the new rules), along with the symptom set, which now has no significance as a diagnosis, but the Asperger Syndrome term has been abandoned, and clinicians are advised to stop providing the diagnosis. According to one of those behind this change: “Asperger’s means a lot of different things to different people,” Dr. Lord said. “It’s confusing and not terribly useful. ... It’s not an evidence-based term.” Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pag... So which part of this do you find confusing? Asperger Syndrome never represented a distinct, identifiable condition separate from mild autism ("“Asperger’s means a lot of different things to different people,” Dr. Lord said. “It’s confusing and not terribly useful.”"), and its rate of diagnosis was far above anything realistic. It threatened to become as big an embarrassment to psychology as recovered memory therapy, facilitated communication or pre-frontal lobotomy. Imagine a group of doctors voting cancer out of a medical textbook. Sound absurd? Not in psychology. > Those are the same thing. No, I assure you, on the best of evidence, that Asperger Syndrome, and people with the Asperger diagnosis, are not the same thing. If you believe otherwise, then you may need professional help, but not for Asperger's.