Aspergers partner? (Edited by GNHQ)

Jane, it's great that experts like you are able to support adults.
I always worried about how pupils would fare once they reached adulthood and left the protective bubble of school.
As children we could offer strategies, but as you say, adults are totally different proposition.

Adults with AS are very different propositions!

Having worked with many children on the autistic spectrum, I know that many were very sensitive as to what they were called or labelled, as were their parents.
We had to tread very warily.

Many of the Adults with Asperger syndrome that I worked with liked and used the term 'Aspie'. It's used in some of their websites and posting forums. Us 'neurotypicals' are the ones shying away from this term.

That's what I was trying to say ?

The article says ‘ Just a note, in the past Asperger’s was considered related to autism but different from it, but since 2013, when a new classification called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) was created in the DSMV, it is now considered to sit at the mild end of the autism spectrum.’

The offending word is actually used in the article btw.

Don't people with Aspergers now come under the ASD diagnosis. I've read that it is no longer recorded as a separate condition.
When my son was diagnosed 5 yrs ago the psychologist wrote high functioning autism with tendencies of Aspergers but I understood it was now incorporated in the spectrum

Ooh sorry about the adverts. I didn’t get any. I have read articles with the word used so many times that I’d just become used to the term but yes...agreed.

I find the term “Aspie” quite offensive - is it necessary to demean the issues of those with Aspergers ?

Me too Marydoll

Having read this post I'm now being targetted with adverts for a clinic in Harley Street which offers a diagnosis for Aspbergers!

I'm sure you weren't meaning to offend Juliet, but having worked with pupils with a diagnosis Aspbergers Syndrome, I find the label, Aspie, not a very nice one.