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Autism vs Aspergers (What YOU NEED To Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  But so here's the difference between autism and Asperger's
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  syndrome. I'm covering all that right now.
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  So guys, have you ever thought to yourself, hey, I've heard the
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  term Asperger's syndrome and I've also heard the term autism.
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  And you're like, well, they can't be the same thing, can
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  they? Or can they be?
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  Or what's the difference? And how do we have one person
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  diagnosed autism and the other person diagnosed Asperger's, And
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  then the person with Asperger's syndrome says, hey, I'm
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  autistic. It can get very confusing.
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  And if you're like me, when I first heard both those terms, I
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  was a bit kind of miffed. Don't breaking all that down
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  right now and explaining everything about that in this
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  video. So I was actually diagnosed with
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  Asperger's syndrome initially. I had an updated diagnosis with
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  autism's function disorder at level 2, which I'll get into a
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  little bit more in a minute. But the most interesting fact is
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  a miscommunication to a lot of people are a myth that people
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  believe for the reasons of not using the term ospreidges, which
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  I'll cover right at the end of the video because I feel I
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  actually honestly feel like a lot of people have no idea why
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  the term isn't used that much anymore.
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  But let's get into that right now.
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  I do daily videos on there too. OK, so First off, let's think
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  about autism, right? Straight off the bat, the
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  Asperger's syndrome is a type of autism, right?
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  A type of autism. Now in 2013, the DSM, which is
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  like the manual for like diagnosing mental health
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  conditions and neurological conditions in the US, the manual
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  basically said, hey, it's too confusing having all this stuff,
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  We'll just put it all into one and call it the autism spectrum
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  disorder. So you can have autism spectrum
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  disorder level 1-2 and three, and anybody diagnosed or would
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  have been diagnosed Asperger's syndrome will be put into the
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  level 1 or level 2. The people who have more severe
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  needs will put into the category of Level 3.
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  So what does this mean and how does historically this add up
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  and make the equivalent of the understanding of autism or
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  Asperger's syndrome? So let's go through autism.
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  Autism comes from a Kenner's infantile autism from a guy
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  called Leo Kenner. Now Leo Kenner was researching
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  autism in 1940, two 1943, round about the same time that Hans
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  Asperger, an Austrian physician and psychologist psychiatrist
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  was also researching this stuff. Now, Leo Kenner, there's a lot
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  of speculation about this. He was taking some of the
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  information from Hans Asperger and some of the information he
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  was doing research on his own. And the same with Hans Asperger.
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  I think there's a crossover where they kind of looked at
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  each other's stuff and took some of the ideas and stuff and
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  whatnot. Now, both of these gentlemen at
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  the time were just looking at kids who are male who had
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  specific issues in the triad of impairment, which basically
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  means like social communication and sentry issues and a bunch of
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  other stuff, right? That kind of categorised this
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  typical behaviour where they were almost in their own world.
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  And the term autism comes from Altos, which is a Greek word for
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  being alone or by one's self, right?
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  So that's where it comes from because often you'll hear
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  somebody say autistic people are alone, you know, in their own
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  world, which is really interesting.
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  So if you've ever come across an autistic person who categorized
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  as being, oh, they're away in their own world.
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  Oh, This is why. And this is kind of why the
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  information of autism kind of takes flight of where the name
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  actually comes from. Now, what is the difference
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  between autism and Aspergers? Well, they were categorized into
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  two sections. OK, So you had Canada's
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  infantile autism, which was looking at people who had really
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  high support needs or what was called classic autism, right?
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  Where they would probably have speech and language issues that
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  have delayed speech and language.
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  As in like it would take them a long time to get up to that
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  speed. Meaning, you know, in school,
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  typically they'd be behind in development and they'd probably
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  have some other learning issues, right?
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  And on top of that, they'd also have social communication issues
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  where typically it's not just speech and language, it's the
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  communication part, which would be really difficult.
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  So they'd have to have quite excessive support to get them
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  through what would typically be seen as average for children.
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  Now, Asperger's syndrome, which is also classified as high
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  functioning autism, which was basically people who were
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  similar in the fact that they couldn't communicate socially
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  and they had difficulties in social communication.
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  They had difficulties in making friends.
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  They had difficulties in, you know, maybe other kind of issues
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  like dyslexia, reading the writing, they had issues with
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  eye contact and they were also displaying these kind of traits
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  of intenseness within oneself, which is quite an interesting
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  concept of why autism is quite startingly obvious when it is
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  obvious. But the difference was the
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  people with Asperger's syndrome or the people diagnosed
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  Asperger's syndrome or diagnosed high functioning autism were
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  able to go about and do more tasks.
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  They could hold down a job, They could walk around and operate
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  within a classroom without 24/7 support.
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  Similar to, you know, how the people with the classic autism
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  or low functioning autism would need 24/7 support.
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  So you had people displaying 2 characteristics of the same
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  thing, however one was able to operate manually in a in an
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  environment typically in reality and understand their position in
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  reality. Like you know I am a person and
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  I sit down here but the other person couldn't communicate
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  themselves or their thoughts at all.
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  So this is how the 2 are split up.
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  So for many years you had Asperger's syndrome, which was
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  the high functioning autism, which is people who like are
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  categorised with things like lack of eye contact, awkward and
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  social situations, sensory processing disorder, love of
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  routine and patterns and obsessive interest and quite
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  intellectually capable. Then you have people with
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  classic autism which came with other things like maybe
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  intellectual disability or global learning delay, you know,
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  speech and language issues, no communication.
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  They they would need help and support to go to the toilet and
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  they'd need 24/7 support. But they also had social
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  communication issues, lack of eye contact, sensory processing
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  issues, love of routine. So you can see how both of these
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  had their own place and position in reality and they were both
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  displaying autistic symptomatic traits or characteristics.
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  time. Part of it which which defines
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  where they lie on the autism spectrum.
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  When we think about autism as a spectrum, it came down to that
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  when they were saying, well, it's Asperger's syndrome on one
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  side and classic autism on the other side, right?
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  For many years this was the same thing.
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  So you'd be categorized into one of two groups should have
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  classic autism, sorry, classic autism or or Asperger's
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  syndrome. Now when the DSM in 2013 came
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  out and changed what we spoke about earlier when they changed
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  the diagnostics to make sure that Asperger's syndrome was not
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  accredited any more or not used any more, they put it under just
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  autism spectrum disorder. So ASD.
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  So you get anybody with classic autism or high functioning
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  autism or Asperger's would have the same diagnostic, just ASD.
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  And the reason for this, and this is part of the biggest
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  myth, many people in the autism community believe that this was
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  done because Hans Asperger was colluding with the Nazis because
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  he lived in Nazi occupied Vienna, which is in fact
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  incorrect. I have done a deep dive analysis
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  into the 2018 nineteen paper which has done over about 8
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  years that talks about the potential Nazi collision from
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  Hans Asperger and the Nazi occupied Vienna Nazi regime
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  which is unjustified by bit of a witch hunt.
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  But I go into in very detail. It's a 26 minute video.
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  I'm going to leave it in a link above here and in the
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  description down below. And I'll leave it on the end
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  card as well because this is very interesting to see the more
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  in depth understanding of why people don't use Asperger's and
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  was hands Asperger involved with the Nazis.
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  And I give a very fair and biased opinion on that.
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  So they decided that they would take Asperger's out of it, not
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  because of Asperger's potential collusion with the Nazis,
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  Because when people in the United States of America were
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  applying for help support, special educational needs and
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  all the other kind of stuff that you'd need to help support
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  somebody with an autism spectrum disorder in an educational,
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  academic or working environment. The government and the agencies
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  who were doing the healthcare insurances were like, well, this
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  isn't classed as autism, it's as Asperger syndrome.
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  So we can't really give them access to the autism support,
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  right? Which kind of I understand from
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  their point of view, because they're trying to make sure that
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  they don't give out as much help to through insurance because
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  they want to make as much money as possible.
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  So they're trying to kind of keep out as many people as
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  possible, but the people who really needed the support.
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  So they said, well, OK, it is ass verges, but ass verges is
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  part of the autism spectrum disorder.
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  But because that wasn't actually encased within that you didn't
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  have the ability to have the people have access to support.
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  So the DSM were like, OK, well if we just take the term
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  Aspergers obey and anybody who would have that diagnosis, it
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  gets squashed into just autism spectrum disorder.
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  Then everybody who goes for those help and support needs
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  legally through the government or or fiscally through agencies
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  or their insurance companies will get access to our support
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  because it's now just classed as autism.
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  However, this is kind of since backfired.
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  And the reason it's backfired is because a lot of individuals on
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  the autonomous spectrum who are like myself, who maybe have a
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  diagnosis previously of Asperger's syndrome will be, you
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  know, in an environment with someone and you say, oh, I'm,
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  I'm autistic or I have autism, right?
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  And then they'll look at you and be like, well, there's a kid
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  down there that can't speak, has global learning delay, you know,
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  can't go to the bathroom on his own.
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  You're doing pretty good. You know, you hold on a job and,
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  you know, you have a girlfriend or whatever.
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  And then you have to kind of explain, yeah, but it's a bit
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  different, you know, awesome special.
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  But where we used to have the term Asperger syndrome, people
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  would be like, oh, yeah, like, like Elon Musk, right.
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  Or, you know, Dan Aykroyd or Eminem.
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  Like they get it because it had a, a nomenclature fixture that
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  was allowing you to identify the person's level of support needs
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  with that nomenclature. So there has been a big kind of
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  backlash and as and as an ongoing debate, you know, do
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  they bring back the term Asperger syndrome?
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  Do we get rid of it completely? Do we keep ASD?
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  Do we change it to ASC? Because a lot of people kicking
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  up a stink saying it should be brought some special condition,
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  not disorder, because disorder's negative, blah, blah, blah.
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  And it's a large discussion. And you can drop a comment down
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  below and let me know your thoughts on this because I read
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  every comment. But if you like to identify with
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  Asperger's or have no problem with people using the term
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  Asperger syndrome, just give the video a thumbs up because it
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  will indicate to me how many people don't mind the term
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  because it makes it more or less confusing.
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  It makes it more understanding, right?
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  But there is this, this back and forth argument.
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  Do we get rid of Aspergers? Do we keep ASD?
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  Do we keep ASD? I don't know.
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  What does the future hold? I don't know.
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  But the most important part is that we're helping supporting
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  and understanding those people who have those issues and not
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  really defining them as somebody who uses a term that you don't
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  agree with because a lot of people think that it's because
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  Pantas wig is a nasty that don't use it, which is incorrect.
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  It was done to allow access to support so that people could
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  have access to autism support even no matter where they are on
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  the spectrum, they still get access to the support.
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  But again, since then we've had to have a rediagnosis of all the
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  people who had Asperger's previous diagnosis.
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  And this has caused a massive backlog in jam, especially here
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  in the UK of trying to get an autumn diagnosis.
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  The waiting list is like 2 1/2 to three years to get a
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  diagnosis of autism here in the UK because of this whole change
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  in diagnostic criteria. But what does the future hold?
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  I don't actually know. I don't personally mind if
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  people use the term Aspergers. I don't mind if people use the
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  term house autism with autism, autistic, whatever.
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  Whatever suits you and makes you, you know, whatever you
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  identify with that makes you feel like that's the best way to
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  communicate your needs to somebody.
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  Do that. There should be no issues there.
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  And if you agree, please give us a thumbs up.
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