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High Functioning Autism vs Aspergers_ 5 Big Differences YOU NEED TO KNOW · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK, so high functioning autism versus Asperger syndrome.
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  Here are three big differences. I think you should definitely
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  understand no and really get to terms with all that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  What is going on? My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  All right guys, high functioning autism is a term and Aspergers
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  is a term terms that we don't really use that much anymore.
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  But there's a reason for that. And I'll explain the reason for
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  that. And I'm going to give you 3
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  differences between them because there is differences.
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  But they would never, you know, when, when they stopped using
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  the term Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism, people
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  didn't really explain what they were and why we stopped using
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  them. We kind of just stopped using
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  them all of a sudden. So basically high functioning
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  classic autism, low functioning Asperger's and all of the in
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  between nomenclature, which is naming all autism.
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  These were put to rest in 2013 and they amalgamated everything
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  into just autism spectrum disorder level 1-2 and three.
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  So then where would we place high functioning autism and
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  Asperges within this? It's very simple.
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  Asperger syndrome would be classed as a level 1 autism and
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  high functional autism would be classed as a level 2 autism.
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  And this is because people who were on the autism spectrum but
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  were diagnosed with Asperger syndrome weren't able to access
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  American healthcare institutionalized insurance
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  company kind of protocol for saying, hey, I need therapy for
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  autism because their diagnosis didn't say autism, it said
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  Asperger's. So they were like, oh, so the
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  insurance companies like, Oh, well, you know, can't payout,
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  can't give you the therapy, you know what it is?
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  And so they're like, God Dang. So then they changed it in 2013.
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  They changed the way that the DSM and then obviously the IDC
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  and then DISCO and ADR. So they all changed the way that
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  they diagnose it. These are all diagnostic manuals
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  and they changed all these. So it was just ASD level 1-2 or
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  three. So autism spectrum disorder and
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  which have a level which I can understand, but also made it
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  super vague, which made it harder for somebody to
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  understand the process where you could like, you know, you might
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  know somebody whose child is a 1415 year old kid in diapers
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  because they don't speak and they're autistic and they have
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  global learning delay, which means they have some
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  intellectual disabilities also. But then you have somebody, OK,
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  almost saying, hey, I'm autistic.
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  And you say, well, how are these people the same?
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  How do they expect the same, you know, level of attention?
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  But they don't because you have low function, you have low
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  support needs and high support needs, which is the old high
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  functioning and low functioning autism is a bit confusing.
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  But we're going to get through those two differences.
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  So #1 is that high functioning autism referred to the level 2
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  autistic individuals who they had like civic skills, like, you
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  know, it's people who could function typically, but they
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  have social skill issues and they also have a delay.
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  There will be some type of cognitive delay within their
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  progression as they grow or as they kind of mature and and
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  develop into adulthood. Whereas people who are
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  Asperger's syndrome display the similar things of like, you
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  know, holding down typical civil tasks and being in society.
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  Yeah, there'd be no delay in the learning abilities that just be
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  a social impairment and some other kind of things like
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  social, you know, I don't know, essentially processing disorder
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  and looking people in the eyes, that kind of thing.
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  So there was a there was a difference, right.
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  And it was to do with like the way in which the the cognitive
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  delay displayed itself. If it was present, it was high
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  functional autism. If it wasn't, it was Asperger
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  syndrome. But that wasn't the only
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  difference, right? This is just no one.
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  Let me see with that. People with Asperger syndrome
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  have the ability to catch up and learn some social skills.
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  They can intellectually see that socializing is a thing that they
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  are good at. And so they can learn maybe a
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  couple of bits and pieces that might make them feel a little
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  bit more like they fit in. OK.
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  So like maybe they could go to an event and I think, well if I
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  talk to people then that's going to be only good for me, right?
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  But with people who had high functioning autism wouldn't even
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  be able to go to the event and would definitely not even know
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  that they are. They are ostracizing themselves
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  from socializing because they don't realize that they haven't
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  got social skills, if that makes sense.
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  And so that's why those those had those two nomenclatures.
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  And again, this is old school terminology.
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  We don't kind of typically use that anymore, even though I'm
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  not policing the words. I'm just saying like you don't
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  typically use those anymore. But I sometimes still use the
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  same Asperges interchangeably because I think it's a good way
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  for people to understand. Because you say, I've got autism
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  spectrum soda level 2. They're like what?
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  Or if I've got autism spectrum soda level 1, they go what?
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  And so it's easier for them if for a person say, oh, I've got
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  Asperger syndrome, they're like, oh, OK, I get it.
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  I get it. OK, so #3 is that when people
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  are diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, they always have an
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  above level intelligence quota or a an intellectual ability
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  that was above average, right? And this is not what they're
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  sometimes called genius symptoms, call it gifted, but
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  it's basically just above average, right?
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  But when people have the diagnosis of high functioning
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  autism, they would have average to below average intelligence,
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  right? And that was really interesting
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  because that's how they still kind of look at where you are.
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  Level 1-2 or three. There was a big hole who have
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  within the community, people say, oh, you can't use some, you
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  know, you can't say stuff like that because it makes you sound
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  like you're, you know, supreme to the people who have just
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  classic autism, high functional autism or autism, Level 1 is
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  different. Level 2 and 3.
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  So if you've got a level 1 diagnosis and you're different
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  level 2 and three, well, yeah, we're all different, right?
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  That's what makes it so beautiful.
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  But it doesn't mean that we're trying to say, well, better than
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  anybody. It just means that that's the
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  diagnosis you have. You know, it's kind of like if
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  you, if you are a better painter than somebody, then it's OK.
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  That's just the fact of the matter, isn't it?
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  If you have a high intellectual ability versus someone just an
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  average intellectual ability, that's not supremism, that's
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  just, well, that's just how you are.
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  And so that's really interesting.
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  There was a big old Hoover in it, but it's so funny.
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  We don't really use those terms anymore.
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  But with that also you have like low functioning autism, which
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  was then taken away because like it's almost derogative in a way
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  because you kind of making the person feel bad.
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  Like I'm low functioning. Like what's that even mean?
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  How does that even fit into it? But if you think about it,
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  there's another kind of diagnostic which is inside the
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  realm of autism, but also outside of it, which is kind of
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  like it's called savantism. And it's kind of like Rain Man
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  Dustin Hoffman plays Raymond, right?
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  And he, he studied him for the movie study.
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  The guy called Kim Peak, who is a savant.
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  No, Kim Peak was had low intellectual ability, had
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  developmental delay, yet he was very gifted.
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  He was extremely intellectual. And he was called the human
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  Google at some point, Kim Peak. And he could read a book both
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  pages simultaneously, but with one eye on each page.
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  That was so interesting, right? But he wasn't really autistic in
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  the sense of like you wouldn't put him into one, two or three.
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  What happened was he had intellectual ability of a level
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  1 autistic, but had the global learning delay and the, the, you
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  know, the the cognitive delay of a Level 3 autistic.
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  So but check someone to a new realm, what they call it
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  savantism or savant syndrome. Again, fascinating.
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  If you'd like to see a video on savant syndrome, just let me
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  know in the comments. I read every single one.
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  And peace guys. I'll see you in the next video.