Originally posted by George 1978
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The psychologist is critical of the highly US centric nature of DSM-5 and how it has effectively become the standard in Britain displacing ICD. The NAS loves it because they can push people with Asperger Syndrome (almost always Level 1 under DSM-5) to the back of the queue. They have never liked dealing with people with Asperger Syndrome.
It appears that whenever autism is used in everyday discourse or social media over the past few years, it means Asperger Syndrome 9 out of 10 times as opposed to traditional autism.
I just think that it wasn't a subject that was discussed back then as it was in later years.
You might not be aware of this, but most teachers don't like having children with Asperger Syndrome in their class. They by and large considered Asperger Syndrome to be a wilful behavioural trait even well into the 1990s.
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