The diagnostic distinction between Asperger’s and HFA was arbitrary and depending on the diagnosis one received as a child would lead to vastly different outcomes (i.e. it meant the difference between staying in a normal school, with academic support, and hopefully getting to go to university versus losing academic options due to being railroaded into a special-school with less course options and so never getting into HE at all - all on the basis of a single childhood assessment).

If the worse that comes out of the DSM-V’s reconceptualisation of autism is just muddied conversations then I’ll gladly take that over the old system where highly-capable people were being denied opportunities like going to uni.

Also, Asperger was a child-killing Nazi (yes, literally). I’m glad we don’t use his name anymore.