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    How is Asperger's syndrome Diagnosed?

    Not sure where you grabbed your stats so cannot agree or disagree. However, an essential part of the new DSM-V diagnosis for ASD includes repetitive behaviors, and rates their severity and uses that as an essential part of the severity rating of the person's autism. In my personal and...
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    How is Asperger's syndrome Diagnosed?

    Oh and yes, there are a couple of "tests" that are used to decide if a person falls within the autism spectrum. But they are not stand alone nor are they as definitive as say, a blood test. They are open to interpretation and frankly, are only as accurate as the person who administered and then...
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    How is Asperger's syndrome Diagnosed?

    Actually, here in the U.S., "Asperger's" as a diagnosis went "away" this year with the new DSM-V (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). The autism "spectrum" is now being broken out in a different way. That being said, whether you call it Asperger's or the...
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