This is somewhat off topic and a matter of semantics, but can we stop referring to Aspergers children as being autistic? Being generally weird, unsocial, and behaving obsessively over achievements is not the same thing as being autistic. When I hear autistic, I imagine a developmentally disabled person, someone who can't talk or read, completely doesn't understand facial expressions and body movement, and spends (or spent as a kid) most of their time glazed over and unable to connect with any other person (including close friends and family). I don't know this kid at all, but if he can play video games, knows how to cheat, and understands what he lost, how is he intellectually disabled? I know, I know, he's "high functioning" but still. Medicine needs sharper definitions of this condition. Otherwise people panic, throw the word epidemic around, and have paranoid delusions about vaccinations.
