Autism Speaks & You, or "Autistic children will ruin your marriage"

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Autism Speaks & You, or "Autistic children will ruin your marriage"

Clochette: Aug 12, 2013

Milky Moor posted:

Exactly.

I would not want to bring a severely autistic child into the world. But there needs to be definition between people who are 'high-functioning' and those who aren't, because when people say autism they're generally meaning the latter in my experience. Didn't they split Aspergers from autism at some point recently?

Asperger's syndrome no longer exists as of the DSM-V. Someone who would have been diagnosed with Asperger's a few years ago would now be diagnosed with autism, specifically high-functioning.