What is the difference between Aspergers and Autism?

If Aspergers was still being diagnosed Edward would still be autistic.

Here is the long version (Dr. Catherine Lord talking about being on the committee that made the new DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition) (DSM5) for Autism and what they did) of my short paragraph.



Before DSM5 came out the main differences between Aspergers and Autism was.
1.speech delay - whether you had fluent speech at 2 (Edward still does not at 3)
2. Which state you lived in/ who the clinician is.
3. What your IQ is - and the IQ level was different in different states and by each clinician (Edward was diagnosed with developmental delays, his intelligence was almost fully masked by his ASD at that stage)

So some people were being bounced around both diagnoses. And in the states people were getting services if diagnosed with autism and dropped off services if diagnosed with aspergers.