So often i come across parents of children with aspergers with an "attitude" about autism, that their children are autistic, but that they "aspergers" children, a "cut above"?? autism??
Lets see we have low functioning autism, autism, aspergers, high functioning autism, PDDNOS, etc etc. I have spoken to parents who seem to think their children have a better future than mine who has "autism" because their children have aspergers.
As aspergers is often as debilitating as any where else on the spectrum i dont understand this logic, except that maybe some parents are fooling themselves that their children are less "dis-abled" because they have aspergers.
at the end of it all, if this belief transpires into not getting all possible help for the child, it can be very damaging. Maybe part of the reason a lot of children dont get help until they are teenagers is due to this notion? that they dont need the help, that they are only "socially compromised"??