Exact semantics aside, you’ve got to be careful. The Down’s comparison is a bad one. With relatively few exceptions Down’s cases fall within a certain cognitive/ability range which is, as I understand it, pretty impaired. Asberger’s, on the other hand, is a much broad spectrum. A diagnosis would not, for example, be enough on its own for a diminshed capacity plea in a court case. Though usually socially awkward and thought to be odd, unusual, or creepy by their peers, many Asberger sufferers are high functioning and go on to have kids, good jobs, etc.. Many do have a developed moral sense and it’s a nonsense to say he cannot be tried simple because he has Asberger’s, other reasons aside. The same could not be said of, say, a paranoid schizophrenic.

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might seem pedantic, but autism/asperger’s/learning disabilities/downs etc are not “mental health” problems, but just facts about the person you are.

Maybe, but Alan Johnson is Home Secretary now.

“If its just aspergers I’d prefer you changed it, for the sake of being both factually and politically correct. ”

I though Asperger’s was a form of mental illness?

If its just aspergers I’d prefer you changed it, for the sake of being both factually and politically correct.

Ta