Talk:Asperger syndrome

Assburgers redirects here

Searching Wikipedia for assburgers redirects to this page, even though assburgers is not mentioned on the page. Perhaps someone should add a note that this is a common derogatory term for Asperger's used on the trashier Internet forums and IRC; otherwise, the redirect would make no sense to the uninitiated. ThVa (talk) 20:18, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Merging Page With Autism

Remind me again why wikipedia is not doing this. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has recently concluded Aspergers Syndrome is- for all intents-and-purposes- the same condition as autism.Ordessa (talk) 12:27, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

It's complicated. Semantics mostly.--Auric talk 17:56, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Because Asperger syndrome still exists in the WHO ICD scheme. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:29, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

The Autism article is already far too long - the spectrum of autism is conveniently (if arbitrarily) divided into several different segments (of which Asperger Syndrome is one) - and currently each has it's own article. If we merged them all back together then the very next thing we'd have to do would be to figure out how to split the resulting gigantic article up again - and the present division is as good as any.

The changes in DSM V don't alter the fact that we have special names for various sections of the Autism spectrum - all it does it to make clear that from a diagnostic perspective, these are all shades of symptoms from what is presumed to be a common cause or set of causes.

SteveBaker (talk) 01:41, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Famous People with Asperger's Syndrome

Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Alfred Hitchcock, Dan Ayckroyd, Daryl Hannah, Woody Allen, Al Gore, Bob Dylan, Michael Palin

Sources:

Cedricwikki (talk) 22:30, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Please review WP:RS and WP:MEDRS, and see List of people with autism spectrum disorders. (Do not add these people there without a MEDRS-compliant source and BLP-compliant source ... from your list, there are few for whom this claim can be based on reliable sources.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Screening

Under the heading Screening, I would suggest changing the age of detection from 30 months to 2 and a half years.

Thanks,

Rremus10 (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

DSM-5

Since Asperger is no longer considered a valid diagnosis, souldn't the article's headline reflect this (such as "Asperger.... was considered an autistism spectrum disorder...." Dan Gluck (talk) 16:34, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

The DSM-5 isn't the end all and be all of mental health diagnostic guidelines. DonIago (talk) 18:29, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Exactly. Asperger syndrome is still considered to be a part of the autism spectrum. DSM V merely formalizes that. With your phrasing readers would assume that people who are labelled "Asperger" are no longer considered to be on the autism spectrum - which is quite the opposite of what DSM V did. SteveBaker (talk) 01:44, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Duplication

Under Classification heading, the second sentence and the last sentence in the first paragraph are exactly the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.203.55.30 (talk) 01:08, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks – fixed. DoctorKubla (talk) 07:56, 26 May 2014 (UTC)