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Can SD say Asperger's is NOT autism?
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<blockquote data-quote="jbaybayx3" data-source="post: 194271" data-attributes="member: 5852"><p>aspergers is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) but not part of the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)...Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or Autism is just a subcatorgory of the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)</p><p> </p><p>Aspergers is NOT Autism for THESE MAIN REASONS...</p><p> </p><p>-People with Aspergers are capable of the basic life skills (writing and balancing a checkbook going to collage driving a car living independly) that people with even high functioning autism may need help doing in the future</p><p> </p><p>as far as the social skills impairment goes Aspergers is way more abstract while autism is very concrete...while aspergers misses social cues autism can't even engage in a basic conversation...they do not have the moral sense of knowing the difference between right and wrong saftey and danger...if someone with autism were to go walking down the isles at a store and saw a group of people shoplifting and not getting caught...they would think that it's ok...they don't have the sence to know that it's wrong to steal...they don't know better...someone with aspergers has that capability...</p><p> </p><p>another thing to concider is that while even higher functioning people on the autistic specrtum are capable of verbal skills they can't engage in a basic conversation.</p><p> </p><p>and while aspergers is focused on interest they are not completly obivlious to the people around them while autism is.l</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jbaybayx3, post: 194271, member: 5852"] aspergers is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) but not part of the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)...Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or Autism is just a subcatorgory of the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) Aspergers is NOT Autism for THESE MAIN REASONS... -People with Aspergers are capable of the basic life skills (writing and balancing a checkbook going to collage driving a car living independly) that people with even high functioning autism may need help doing in the future as far as the social skills impairment goes Aspergers is way more abstract while autism is very concrete...while aspergers misses social cues autism can't even engage in a basic conversation...they do not have the moral sense of knowing the difference between right and wrong saftey and danger...if someone with autism were to go walking down the isles at a store and saw a group of people shoplifting and not getting caught...they would think that it's ok...they don't have the sence to know that it's wrong to steal...they don't know better...someone with aspergers has that capability... another thing to concider is that while even higher functioning people on the autistic specrtum are capable of verbal skills they can't engage in a basic conversation. and while aspergers is focused on interest they are not completly obivlious to the people around them while autism is.l [/QUOTE]
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