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Yah I hate that people call SUVs, "cars". They're completely different.
And it's terrible that people started calling lecterns, "podiums". They're entirely independent of one another.
And it sucks that people call 1/2 baths, "bathrooms" even though nobody's doing any kind of bathing in those things.
That series of analogies is absolute garbage and you know it.
It does kinda fit. The main part that changes between the "levels" of a diagnosis is the severity of symptoms and how much they impact your ability to take part in society. If car and SUV are too close for you, then we can also compare a normal car with a three wheeled one. Its kinda different but still the same. Everyone but the most pedantic person would categories it as a car.
It doesn't mean everyone needs the same accommodation, but that's also the case for someone with a broken pinky vs a broken neck.
What analogies?
Those are examples of other conflationary ambiguing terms that are annoying.
Of course I just made up conflationary and ambiguing. I don't know if they're the proper terms.
The problem I have is that there is a loss of specificity, not that Asperger's and autism are fundamentally different. Autism used to be defined as the cluster of autism-like symptoms paired with a developmental problem with language. Asperger's was very similar, except that the impairment was with social interaction and non-verbal communication rather than linguistic aspects. Nowadays, while there is a lot of overlap, the difference is more like car vs truck rather than car vs SUV. You can classify a truck as a type of car, but you can't classify a car as a type of truck.
It's too late, they already classified SUV's as a truck.