> Please leave diagnostics for professionals.
> asperger spectrum
This is no longer recognized in the DSM-5.
> asperger spectrum
This is no longer recognized in the DSM-5.
Asperger/autism - it's still a spectrum that's affected with neurological function.
So we are talking about neurologically distinct persons who may have been called in some instances as "being on the asperger spectrum".
What is the current accepted terminology for this neurological profile?
(I have close family diagnozed by neurologists 'on this spectrum' - and it is very much a specific neurological profile whatever we may call it).
DSM-5 replaced everything with autism spectrum disorder.
The way you put it sounded like the thing didn't even exist. Whereas, it was just a name change. If that wasn't deliberately misleading, it might as well have been. Someone who isn't familiar with these issues might have looked things up briefly, then concluded that someone was lying.
In my view, intellectual honesty demands taking care not to create such misleading situations, even at the cost of strongly "scoring a point." Especially at that cost!