Is Asperger Syndrome the diagnosis du jour of the 2000s, much like ADHD in the 90s?

Shy? Introverted? Like learning? Hate sports? AUTISTIC!!!!!!

More and more people are being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Before, a lot of aspies went undiagnosed until adulthood. Now most are being diagnosed in childhood. That partly explains the increase, which can make it sound like a trend. That doesn't mean that Asperger's syndrome is not a real disorder. Some people are misdiagnosed, but many people really have Asperger's.

You forget to take severity into consideration. Most personality traits can be considered normal if they stay within a normal boundary. It's when they cross that boundary and become a problem that they are no longer considered normal and are instead considered a part of some disorder. Report Abuse

For example it's normal to be sad sometimes, but it's not normal to be suicidal. It's normal to have interests and spend a lot of time on them, but it's not normal to be so obsessed with them that you forget to eat and sleep and get really upset if you must take a break from it to do something else. Report Abuse

I don't see an overlap anywhere, personality is a very different thing from asperger syndrome. Asperger changes the way you perceive things, the way your brain thinks, your tastes, neurological stuff. Whoever gives asperger diagnosis to any introvert who hates sports is not being scientific. Report Abuse

Yea, but ADHD is still more popular. OCD is also becoming "the thing to have". Bipolar, prosopagnosia too, but the leading thing people like to claim when they just wanna be seen as weird as possible is gayness, easiest thing to claim cause no one will ask you to prove it and there is no diagnosis to seek.