So What is Aspergers.
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So I have detailed out five facts or five none facts about Aspergers syndrome.
Cause I feel like a lot of people don't know what Aspergers syndrome is.
And I do wanna clear something up that Aspergers syndrome is now
called autism spectrum disorder.
And there is no real difference between Asperger's syndrome and
autism it's one and the same thing as we were just his autism and just
had a weird nomenclature change over.
And there was some, some just the whole thing, right.
I'll do a story all about the change, but that's not important for now.
Important part is that autism is Aspergers and is interchangeable.
Just the title is video is Aspergers and stuff.
Anyway, let's go on with these five facts, cause I'm really pumped to get them going.
Okay.
So number one, aspergers syndrome or autism is a neurological disorder
and that's where it's classed as.
It's more like a neurological condition than a disorder because
disorder makes it sound like.
Something bad, but it's actually more of a condition.
So aspergers syndrome is a neurological neuro developmental disorder, uh, which
is present in people, uh, from birth.
It's something that happens.
It's the way your neurons, your neurological pattern in your brain fuse as
you're being like created, you know, and that kind of like rush of like university
WAHHH you know all this cool stuff.
Um, that's kinda like what happens, uh, the conception of your life,
which is pretty amazing that at that moment in time, you kind of get.
Fused with like, you know, who you're going to be.
And part of that is your neurological kind of bitmap.
And that map is, uh, yeah.
Is neuro developmental for people on the autism spectrum.
And it causes this what we know as a condition.
Autism.
So that is very, very interesting.
A lot of people think that it's a mental health issue, um, when it's not.
Um, but it definitely is a neurological disorder or a neurotlogical condition,
which is why, um, yeah, it's all to do with brain activity, which
I find absolutely fascinating.
And, uh, yeah.
Let's move on to the next fact.
Okay.
So Aspergers syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder.
Now Aspergers syndrome and autism, and the same thing.
It's part of, um, the autism neurological conditions that's known as this disorder.
Right?
Um, and this, this is the interesting figures, right?
One in a hundred people in United Kingdom actually diagnosed with autism.
And one in 60 people in the United States of America are
diagnosed with autism, which is.
Crazy numbers.
Like that's a lot of people, uh, which is fascinating and probably a lot more,
but a lot of people go and diagnose.
So it kind of like, um, you know, it's just one of those things where a
lot of people aren't diagnosed at the moment, but I think we will catch up
with it and those figures will change and will vary and maybe they'll get
shorter or maybe they'll get bigger.
Who knows about the moment in time?
I was like, It's how you did the video.
That's what the statistics are.
So if you're watching this in the future and like, you know, 3025, um, hello
from the past, this is a cool echo of all the cool things we did in the past.
When, uh, you know, I don't know, 2020 is not the best year in the world, but yeah.
Anyway, let's get on with the rest of this video.
Okay, so number three, behavioral traits, right?
So Asperger's syndrome is characterized by behavior traits in a person.
Um, and these include lack of eye contact, obsessive focus on an interest of topic
and difficulties with social interactions.
That's
kind of like it really crude, but very, to the point of how, uh, the, uh, the tride
of impairment kind of impact somebody.
And that's how they get that.
Their Autism diagnosis because in those areas they, they have issues
or they struggle in those areas and that's kind of like it works.
So there are behavioral traits that will create hallmarks and identifiable
markers for people on the autism spectrum and kind of how you diagnose it.
Okay.
So number four, Hans Asperger now ask about just syndrome, came from a body
of research done in like the 1940s and 1947 developed by a guy called
Hans Aspergers, who was an Austrian.
Physician or doctor or whatever.
Um, and he, uh, he was publishing work and information back then
on behavioral traits of boys in particular, which is quite interesting.
He didn't really study girls, just boys.
And this is kind of what the condition was named after.
And it wasn't actually named after him until like 2000,
2000 or we're talking about it.
Wasn't actually named after him until like the 1980s when he died.
I think he died in 1984.
And then after that they started naming the condition Asperger's
syndrome, which is fascinating.
I didn't really know that until I was researching for this video.
So yeah.
How cool is that?
Okay, so number five is name change.
Now, this is interesting.
I was kind of talking about this in the beginning of the video, and I wanted
to kind of go over it in more detail.
So asperger syndrome, um, uh, found its name changed in 2013, uh, due to the
change in the DSM five, which is basically the, the, the book, the guide, book for
diagnosing people it's American, um, it's like American psycho, uh, I dunno,
therapy book that comes out every single edition has different, like things
in it and tells you like, Oh, well, uh, you know, you can't call this or
this, this is all like language based in terminologies and stuff like that.
But basically it's the criteria that you use to diagnose somebody
with conditions like autism.
Now the DSM five actually changed the nomenclature from.
Aspergers syndrome to autism spectrum disorder, and it's now
formally know as autism spectrum disorder and not Aspergers syndrome.
And the reason they did this is because there was basically this uproar where
aspergers, um, people who had diagnosed Aspergers have, um, lower support.
needs Then people who are diagnosed with autism, but people who diagnosed with
autism and Asperger's still needed support and have special educational needs and
both need equal amounts of, um, uh, care taken to the specific area of their life.
That was giving them issues.
But of course, when you have a diagnosis of autism, you're
able to access autism support.
When you have aspects.
There's a lot of people weren't able to access the aspergers of
support because it wasn't autism and all this kind of stuff.
So basically it did away with all this nomenclature.
And they just said it's also the spectrum disorder and everybody can
access to support as much or as little as they need, which is a green move.
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