Does it matter? even a little bit? 50 years ago what we call now Aspergers Syndrome was just part of Normal. Normal was a much broader field of humanity than it is now. Many of the new “syndromes” are but Psychologists inventing new “conditions” to treat and along the way, narrowing down “normal” further and further. Listen to a psychologist, and I have done that, you would discover that only 5-10 per cent of human beings are “normal,” all of them politically Liberal.
It really doesn’t matter....
Here’s just a few People determined to have Asberger’s:
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer
Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist
Michelangelo, 1475 1564 - Italian Renissance artist
Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, US polictician/writer
Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist
Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer
Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist
Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice
That’s part of the risk when taking psychology classes in college. It doesn’t take very long until you start thinking, “Damn, I must be crazy. I’ve got most of that stuff!”
I'm pretty sure that a while back, sometime last year (?), that they decided that Asperger's Syndrome would no longer exist. I don't know if they just re-named it, or what; but, the Asperger people were quite upset.
FWIW, I once looked at the signs of Aspergers, and found quite a few things that I could relate to, and my youngest daughter as well.