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by Almaviva 3895 days ago
Autism Spectrum Disorder is even less specific, and is in the process of being mislabeled and misused in this decade. Pick your poison?
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Autism Spectrum Disorder is an encompassing term for all different types of autism. It makes the point that autism has different forms and falls along a spectrum. Asberger's falls on that spectrum.
It's actually more political than you think: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/autism-his...