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Siwastaja:
Note that assburger was the trend diagnosis of late 1990's and early 2000's, AFAIK it has been completely removed from official use as a diagnosis everywhere. (Wikipedia says retired as diagnosis in 2013.)

It was always quite iffy as a diagnosis, being some kind of "Autism Lite 2000TM". Many people are like me, they tick quite a few boxes out of assburger diagnosis but not enough to get it. It makes little sense to diagnose people like that, when most of the criteria are more like personality traits everyone has, just more focused and stronger in some.
tom66:
It's a real diagnosis, they just don't like using it so much anymore because Hans Asperger was probably a nazi and referred disabled children to certain clinics which were known to execute patients.  The same diagnosis is more typically high functioning autism nowadays.
tooki:

--- Quote from: Siwastaja on December 08, 2022, 01:13:45 pm ---Note that assburger was the trend diagnosis of late 1990's and early 2000's, AFAIK it has been completely removed from official use as a diagnosis everywhere. (Wikipedia says retired as diagnosis in 2013.)

It was always quite iffy as a diagnosis, being some kind of "Autism Lite 2000TM". Many people are like me, they tick quite a few boxes out of assburger diagnosis but not enough to get it. It makes little sense to diagnose people like that, when most of the criteria are more like personality traits everyone has, just more focused and stronger in some.

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But that is not to say that it was a “fake” diagnosis or anything. It’s just been subsumed into ASD.

And while I agree to an extent that it can be considered a personality trait in mild cases, it goes well beyond that in many.

Much like ADHD: the excessive phony diagnoses that many believe to occur do not mean that real cases don’t exist (and are common) and that they exhibit significant, real-world differences and deficiencies in how the brain works. There is discussion to rename it because of how the ADD/ADHD names make people focus on certain symptoms while ignoring others that are equally, if not more, important. It’s not just a personality trait.
TimFox:
What ever happened to "neurasthenia", an ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance, as the usual diagnosis for bourgeois maladies?
Raste nie und haste nie, sonst haste die Neurasthenie.
james_s:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 08, 2022, 01:19:30 pm ---It's a real diagnosis, they just don't like using it so much anymore because Hans Asperger was probably a nazi and referred disabled children to certain clinics which were known to execute patients.  The same diagnosis is more typically high functioning autism nowadays.

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I was diagnosed with it years ago, now it's typically just lumped into the umbrella of "autism spectrum disorder". It doesn't really matter anyway IMO, it isn't a treatable condition, my brain is just wired a bit differently making me a bit eccentric. I'm quite sure ASD is vastly more prevalent among engineers than in the general population. It is practically the description of the stereotypical engineer personality.
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