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There are a number of common fallacies, misconceptions and outright lies surrounding Asperger's and other autism spectrum disorders. These '''common misconceptions''' include:
* '''It doesn't exist'''. Yes, there are false diagnoses (and many more false self-diagnoses). If every condition which had those didn't actually exist, we wouldn't need doctors. That said, according to the DSM-V Asperger's Syndrome doesn't exist (although the DSM-V does still consider autism to exist). That change to the DSM-V is quite controversial. Asperger's Syndrome is still in the ICD-10.
* '''[[The Rainman|Social disability means talent in a particular field]]'''. One of the most popular misconceptions on Asperger's Syndrome, made worse by how [[Word of God|Hans Asperger himself]] described these people as "Little Professors". While a persistent obsession with any particular subject that leads to lots of study and practice in that subject may help in getting really good at it, people with AS are otherwise generally no more or less talented in anything than anyone else could become with that much study. How famous geniuses (supposedly) had Asperger's (e.g. [[Albert Einstein]] adds to the problem, and this of course attracts antisocial people to self-diagnose themselves with Asperger's, causing the syndrome as a whole to be associated with...
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