What criteria does one need to meet before being diagnosed as a high functioning autistic?

Just read Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison. He’s the older brother of the author of Running with Scissors. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, which is on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum, and was diagnosed in middle age.

Autism and related disorders do run along a spectrum ranging from severely disabling at one end to a gray area where it blends into the merely eccentric at the high end of the spectrum. Most adults with Asperger's are not diagnosed because the disorder was only officially recognized in 1994. Sometimes when a child is diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome or high-functioning autism, one of the parents may recognized the disorder in himself or herself after learning about it, as there appears to be a strong genetic component.

Here is a description of the disorder by the founder of the OASIS website and forum (stands for "Online Asperger Information and Support"): http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html Frankly, I think ... more.

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