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Aspergers vs Autism 5 Key Differences YOU Must Know · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So Aspergers versus autism, here are five key differences that
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  you definitely should know. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHDOCD and a dyslexia, and I make weekly
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  OK, guys, so a lot of people, they want to know what the
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  difference between autism and Asperger syndrome is.
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  Look, Asperger syndrome is autism and autism and Asperger
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  syndrome in a way that they are both on the autism spectrum.
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  It's part of the autism spectrum.
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  And since 2013, the DSM 5, which are the money of the diagnosing
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  people in the United States of America, it changed everything
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  to just being autism spectrum disorder.
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  And then there was levels 1-2 and three.
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  That's it. But for the sakes of this, I'm
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  going to talk about what the difference was and why that
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  difference existed. But if you're autistic and you
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  want to build confidence and lower anxiety, I have a free
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  All you need to do is go to the link down below or somewhere on
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  the screen, and I'll leave a URL for that.
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  So #1 autism usually used to refer to the classic autism and
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  classic autism is like the highest support needs autistic
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  individuals. And there should be people who
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  would also have a comability of maybe some global learning delay
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  and some other kind of learning difficulties.
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  Maybe they needed full time supervision.
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  Maybe they're in diapers. Because you got to think about
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  it when when you're dealing with people and they say, hey, my
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  kids, my kids friend in school is autistic, but they can't talk
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  and they're in diapers and there's like 14.
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  And then you see people heal on Musk saying, hey, I'm autistic.
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  You're like, Oh well, how does this make any sense?
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  And it's because of this look, they used to have these
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  differences like classic autism, high functioning, low
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  functioning Aspergers. And now we just have level 1-2
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  and three. There's the same kind of thing,
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  but they've changed the name of the nomenclature.
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  So #1 is that autism usually refers to the the classic autism
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  type and Aspergers usually refers to kind of like the Elon
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  Musk and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and the Einstein types, the
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  people who had speech and language and abilities and like
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  above average intelligence. And so that's really
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  interesting. That was like one of the main
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  differentiation categories. So #2 is that autism used to be
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  called classic autism or infantile autism.
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  And Asperger's syndrome referred to the level of the abilities,
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  the nomenclature, the naming of it.
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  You had classic autism, which is based off the research by Leo
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  Kennett, and then he had Asperger's syndrome, which was
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  coined by a woman called Lorna Wing from the 1980s.
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  And then it was used diagnostically to refer to
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  people. And The funny thing about it was
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  it was named after Hans Asperger, but it was never
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  really done during his time because Hans Asperger wrote this
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  stuff in 1940, two 1940s, and it was like the early days of when
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  autism research was coming around.
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  OK, so #3 was people who were diagnosed with Asperger's
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  syndrome usually have above average intelligence, whereas
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  people who are diagnosed with what was the classic autism
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  usually have intellectual disability.
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  And so not only did they have learning difficulties, they also
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  have intellectual disabilities. And this is quite fascinating
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  because this is what really made the difference between and why
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  people used to say like, oh, low functioning or high functioning
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  because they were like, well, my kid displays autism and this kid
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  displays autism. But it can't be the same because
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  this child can't do certain tasks, can't make you 14 years
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  old and you can't brush your teeth on your own.
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  And but then you have a 10 year old who can brush your teeth on
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  their own. But they both have severe
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  difficulties in social implications of the triad of
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  impairment, which is how kind of like they put together the
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  diagnostic criteria for autism. And I think that's really
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  interesting. A lot of people say like, oh,
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  you can't use that because it makes you sound superior and
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  leave people inferior. It's not about that.
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  It's just about stating fact and the fact that when people were
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  diagnosed Asperger syndrome, it would be scene where they were
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  like, OK, well this person have a gifted IQ right?
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  Or an intelligence quota. And whereas the people with
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  classic autism would have learning difficulties and other
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  kind of developmental delays or global learning delay.
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  So that there was a lot of different kind of issues that
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  impacted those classic autism type of diagnostics.
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  So #4 is that a person diagnosed with autism could be a mute or
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  non speaking person, which means they'd have no language and
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  speech ability at all. Whereas everybody who's
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  diagnosed with Asperger syndrome would have speech and language.
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  And that's fascinating because autism being a communication
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  disorder would impact the people who have the highest support
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  needs and it would impact their ability to speak.
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  And even if they could speak until these early diagnosis,
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  then the speech would have been broken and nonsensical and
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  sometimes because they would have a hard time communicating
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  their needs outward. And that's really interesting
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  where people diagnosed with Asperger syndrome had great
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  intellectual ability in cognitive speech patterns where
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  it didn't really impair them in that way, even though they had
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  extreme social and other type of issues all along that way.
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  The number 5 is that Asperger syndrome is based off of the
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  research done by Trans Asperger from Austria in 1942.
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  And autism or classic autism was based off Leo Kenner's autism
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  research done at the same time simultaneously, but in America.
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  So Leo Kenner's in America, Hans Asperger's in Austria.
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  And it's so interesting that both these men were doing valid
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  research on the same topic simultaneously, but in different
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  kenospheres where, you know, Leo Kenner was looking at what was
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  originally called Kenner's infantile autism or Kenner's
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  syndrome, which then became autism because of auto, which is
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  a Latin for like being on your own in one's world.
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  And originally he actually called it, they called it
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  refrigerator mother syndrome, where he was saying that it was,
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  he was kind of blaming the mothers, which was really
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  detrimental. But then the hands off split.
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  On the other hand, he was finding out that young boys
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  only, which is quite an interesting concept as well.
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  We're displaying these kind of traits of social empowerment and
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  some, you know, what we now know is also some spectrum issues,
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  but they were also very intellectual in certain areas,
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  not every area, but just certain areas.
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  Maybe, you know, I don't know, science, maths, technology,
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  collecting, I don't know what it was.
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  It could have been a myriad of things.
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  And that was really interesting because that really does define
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  those differences. A lot of people will say, well,
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  look, there are no differences between autism and Asperger.
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  Stop using this term. Look, I'm not here to police the
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  words and usage of it because I believe that Asperger syndrome
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  is a valid term. If you want to identify and use
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  that, go ahead and be free. And the reason it was changed is
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  back in 2013, the they changed how the DSM, which was the main
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  manual for diagnosing chronological mental health
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  conditions in America. They changed the way they named
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  it because Asperger's syndrome was being diagnosed.
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  But people who were diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome
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  couldn't access healthcare in America because the IT wasn't
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  autism. You know what I mean?
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  It wasn't they weren't diagnosed autistic, which means that they
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  were our side of the sphere of actually getting help.
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  That was designed by the insurance companies so that you
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  would only, you'd only get help if you had autism only
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  diagnosis. They have to change it, which is
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  kind of annoying. And so then they changed the
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  name of Alsbridge syndrome. And then the paper came out in
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  2018 that speculated that Hans Asperger being in Nancy occupied
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  Vienna was part of this whole kind of Germany World War Two
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  thing, which is absolutely bogus.
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  I did a 26 minute deep dive video on it and I'll try and
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  link it in this video. But you can also go to I'll try
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  and link it in the video down below.
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  But you can also go and just research it.
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  Look at the paper yourself. I did a 26 minute deep dive into
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  analysis of the paper. He's not cluded with these
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  people in any way. And Hans Asperger was not
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  involved in eugenics. Even stated in the book by Steve
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  Silberman, he tells about Hans Asperger and how Hans Alberger
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  actually safeguarded the children, was even arrested by
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  the Gestapo for kind of not handing over children to this
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  horrible oligarchy in Germany and Vienna at the time.
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  So when people do say that oh hands Asperger was this and the
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  other, they're probably really misinformed and they haven't
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  read the paper themselves. OI would definitely recommend
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  checking it out. That means instead if there's
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  anything you'd like to add to this.
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  I read every single comment so I'll O in a comment down below
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  and I'll see you in the next one guys iece.