At a loss for words.
I'm not surprised. The general public when I was growing up had no understanding about any of this. Children and adults were misdiagnosed or never diagnosed.
Once the diagnostic criteria was refined and improved, the number of people with ADHD, ASD or comorbidity skyrocketed. I know. I'm late diagnosed ADHD.
Does anyone know where I can find some kind of breakdown of these conditions.
For example, if autism is the umbrella term, what fall under this umbrella?
Thanks.
@plutopussycat thank you!
Do others agree with this hierarcy:
Autistic people often have other conditions, such as:
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...
Others, as in…?
This is a common (evidenced, agreed) approach atm. There will be other views of course, and importantly other research that tests and seeks new understanding. It may change.
@plutopussycat other schools of thought, I meant. Theories, possibly.
I was kind of surprised at this list, entirely:
Autistic people may have other conditions
Autistic people often have other conditions, such as:
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- dyslexia
- anxiety
- depression
- epilepsy
I also didn't know that the terms, Asperger's and autism were essentially interchangeable. From my (limited) experience, I see Asperger's to be a distinct condition.
I'm saying, I have a number of autistic friends, I don't think any of them have, Asperger's. I have known a couple of people with Asperger's fairly well; well enough to recognize the condition, so I am curious if another source might differ.
Another question. If the umbrella is "neurodiverse", what falls under that umbrella? Autism?
If so, then what else, besides, autism? Point here, is I may have selected the wrong umbrella.
I am looking for the large term and the breakdown below it.
@elsa the spectrum contains those variants, including asperger’s. neurodiverse could be an umbrella also.
@plutopussycat thank you. That's more along the lines of what I was expecting. Just wondering what other classifications / criteria... I'm just trying to better educate myself, basically.
Hey I'm studying this in school and an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis isn't considered a learning disability (LD). They're technically a separate condition from one another but you can have both. ASD is neurodevelopmental and affects how the brain processes info. Its more about communication, sensory and social skills.
An LD is a neurological condition that affects how a person puts together info, like a puzzle that doesn't fit. LD's are specific to reading, writing & math.
The new textbooks (as of 2013) have done away with 'Asperger's' as a diagnosis and redesignating those people as 'highly functioning Autistic'
Oh and there are three types of neurodivergence:
applied, clinical and acquired. Applied is that you were born with it but it's not a health condition (dyslexia), clinical is you were born with it and is considered a health condition (ASD), and acquired is something that happened to affect the brain like a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or PTSD or MS.