AANE Executive Director Brenda Dater quoted in “The Guardian” article

Zoë Corbyn
The Guardian

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She would never, she stresses, tell an individual they couldn’t use the term Asperger’s or Aspie, “ but as an organisation we need to move away from that”. “Asperger’s is on the way out; I expect it will be gone in the next five or 10 years, and it won’t be coming back,” she says.

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