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Aspergers Terminology Rant

I would replace the terminology special interest, with "deep interest".

Everybody in life has interest in something but it just that our interests can be a bit deeper than others.

Passion as mentioned above is also good terminology.
 
Today I was reading the foreword by Dr. Luke Beardon to Very Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome by Philip Wylie. Pearson wrote that he prefers the term "identification" to "diagnosis." After I thought about it for all of 10 seconds, I realized that I do, too.

Pearson later writes that "Anyone involved in the diagnostic pathway should be treating the individual with the respect they deserve, as opposed to as a ‘patient’ who needs ‘assessing.’"

What a beautiful way to put it! My interpretation of that shift in terminology is that there's nothing wrong with us, there never has been; in fact, there's something right with us. We've just been waiting (some of us have waited much longer than others) to identify it!
 
Today I was reading the foreword by Dr. Luke Beardon to Very Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome by Philip Wylie. Pearson wrote that he prefers the term "identification" to "diagnosis." After I thought about it for all of 10 seconds, I realized that I do, too.

Pearson later writes that "Anyone involved in the diagnostic pathway should be treating the individual with the respect they deserve, as opposed to as a ‘patient’ who needs ‘assessing.’"

What a beautiful way to put it! My interpretation of that shift in terminology is that there's nothing wrong with us, there never has been; in fact, there's something right with us. We've just been waiting (some of us have waited much longer than others) to identify it!
I didn't care about being identified I just want to stay away from other people and if I had to be labelled it was a means to an end
 
I didn't care about being identified I just want to stay away from other people and if I had to be labelled it was a means to an end
Think of it as self-identification, i.e. having a better understanding of who you are. I don't care whether other people understand what makes me tick. I care what makes me tick but didn't for a long, long time.
 

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