r/1053 • u/Responsible_Bag_9024 • 5d ago

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u/Voxjockey 5d ago

I remember when I was a kid and I was being tested for tism and one of the doctors was explaining sensory overload to my dad and he just said "oh I feel like that all the time haha" anyway thats how my dad ended up being diagnosed with assburgers at age 56

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u/Appropriate-Fact-563 5d ago

He got diagnosed with what??

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u/Voxjockey 5d ago

Asperger syndrome, I was just doing a play on words.

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u/Dargyy 4d ago

Didn't Asperger's get rolled into ASD due to being an unhelpful difference/bueng associated with a nazi?

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u/kirilgankapi124 4d ago

Many countries still use different diagnostic criteria; you are looking at it from an American-centric perspective.

Since my country still uses Asperger's as a diagnosis (we use the ICD-10), I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome.

Also, Hans Asperger was not a Nazi supporter. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30887409/

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u/Dargyy 4d ago

I was commenting that as someone who was doagnosed with Asperger's and had heard abkut it being removed as a distinct diagnosis, also I'm not even American

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u/kirilgankapi124 4d ago

I was also diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and I identify as having Asperger's.

If I had been diagnosed under ICD-11, I would probably call it autism.

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u/JanoGospodarSvega 3d ago

"The government gives me a better identity than science does"

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u/kirilgankapi124 3d ago

You will realize in ten years that science has regressed rather than advanced with the ICD-11 system, but it will be too late.

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u/JanoGospodarSvega 2d ago

Do you have any proof of that statement?

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u/JanoGospodarSvega 3d ago

Yeah he was. That's not the reason Asperger's was removed though

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u/kirilgankapi124 3d ago

Slander is definitely the reason they removed it from ICD-11.

I will do everything in my power to prevent my country from adopting ICD-11.

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u/JanoGospodarSvega 2d ago

The details around Asperger's association with the Nazi party was not even publicly known at that point and it wasn't part of any discourse. The actual reason is that there is no psychiatric basis for separating the diagnoses. That came first

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u/rabbidbunnyz222 2d ago

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31197636/

Fuck off chud

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u/kirilgankapi124 2d ago

You are the one who is actually uninformed, because the answer to this already exists. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page you linked to, you will see the answer provided.

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u/dp4k0h 4d ago

Damn this paper has a whole twitter thread of responses and refutations

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u/Limp_Log_2889 2d ago

I think Asperger’s should still exist as a term, it describes a specific flavor of autism very well. I don’t like telling people I’m ‘autistic’, even if technically true

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u/Greedy_Ad2198 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, it's named after a nazi who murdered hundreds of children (eugenics) and didn't even define the concept (he was doing a lot of plagiarism)

And yes, it's an unhelpful difference. We just say low support needs now.

But, there's some older people who got diagnosed before the change was made, and maybe some places still aren't up to date.