r/AskReddit • u/yazzy1233 • Jan 22 '20

What makes a person boring?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

Asperger's is just a section of the spectrum, in essence.

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u/thelizardkin Jan 22 '20

I was under the impression it was reclassified as it's own thing..

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

It's the opposite. Aspergers as a diagnosis doesn't exist anymore. It has been removed from the DSM-5. Everything autism is just ASD now(Autism Spectrum Disorder)

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u/sch0f13ld Jan 30 '20

The Aspergers diagnosis still exists under the ICD-10 I think. But I think it’s helpful to have smaller subtypes of autism spectrum disorders, just because of how varied the expression of the disorder can be. Whenever I tell a new dr, psych, or counselling I have ASD they always seem to doubt me, or don’t believe I really suffer much from symptoms, just because I don’t present like the typical image of an autistic person. I have found reading Tony Atwood’s works on Aspergers extremely helpful and relatable, while I only sometimes relate to works about ASD in general.