A couple of days ago I received a very pleasant email on our FaceBook autism discussion page called AutismTalk.

The lady writing explain that she had been told that Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD had been renamed Autism Spectrum Condition or ASC.  And that (Autism Spectrum Condition ) is how we should refer to it in the future.

I quick stomp around Google showed me that yes a few organisations prefered using Autism Spectrum Condition to Autism Spectrum Disorder.  For example Simon Baron- Cohen and Autism Initiatives prefer Autism Spectrum Condition  as they feel is it less stigmatising.

So what do you think.  It does strike me that name changing isn’t really game changing but that is a personal view.   I thought that it would be interesting to run a  poll and the subject.  The poll us below and it would be great if you could take part.

Feel free to use the comments section below to share what you think the condition should be renamed.

Many thanks in advance