Discussion History Main / NoManOfWomanBorn

\\\'Autism, and the sub-category with higher verbal capability, but otherwise largely identical symtoms, popularly called \\\"Asperger\\\'s Syndrome\\\"\\\' Actually... The sub-category with high verbal capacities is just called high functioning autism. Asperger\\\'s Syndrome is a form of high functioning autism. Not all forms of high functioning autism are Asperger\\\'s and there is even some debate as to whether Asperger\\\'s really is a form of autism because, though the symptoms are often the same, the way the mind of someone with Asperger\\\'s Syndrome works is very different from the way someone with another form of high functioning autism thinks. If you are interested in knowing more, \\\'\\\'Thinking in Pictures\\\'\\\' provides great insight into how the mind of someone with more classic, but clearly high functioning, autism works. Those with Asperger\\\'s Syndrome tend to lack this very visual way of thinking. All I\\\'m saying is that that sentence isn\\\'t very accurate.
* Visual thinking may or may not be a distinction between the two though and may be more due to specific manifestation. My own hypersensitivities are tactile and aural, and I\\\'ve found this matches up with my main forms of \\\"visualising\\\" data, particularly aural. Most of my thinking is like talking inside my head... and that sounds bad, but I honestly can\\\'t think how better to say that, since \\\"out loud inside my head\\\" is just plain contradictory. The point still stands though.