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    >Asperger’s syndrome... will be folded into a single broad diagnosis, autism spectrum disorder
^ FTA quoted as a source. It's not going anywhere, just re-labelling. There are definitely things behind AS, it's certainly not all just 'hullabaloo', even if a lot of cases might be.



> It's not going anywhere, just re-labelling.

Not really. Two things are happening:

1. Asperger's is being dropped as a diagnosis.

2. ASD diagnostic criteria are being redefined with the specific aim of reducing the number of diagnoses, to avoid another epidemic of nonsense treatments of people who, apart from being intelligent, are otherwise normal.

Further reading: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/health/research/new-autism...

> There are definitely things behind AS ...

Yes, there certainly are. It's a gold mine for clinical psychology, because anyone to the right of the mean population I.Q. can be diagnosed using the present criteria, and because of this kind of abuse, it's being abandoned -- it's just too tempting to apply it to everyone. As one of its prominent critics has said, "It's not an evidence-based term."




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