THIS Is Why We Don’t Call It “Asperger’s” Anymore

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   @jamesweimer5478

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   I agree with Joe that Down sounds like a hell of a nice guy, and I think it would be illogical and small minded to judge him by the standards of today. Sadly, many people have a tendency to hold historical figures in contempt just for being products of their times, lol.

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   @EvelynDayless

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   "War Criminals in my disease name?" It's more likely than you think.

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   @plainegrace5712

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   Down Syndrome, not Down's.

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   @donnamichelerichey2878

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   In recent years I have heard Down's syndrome referred to as Trisomy 21

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   @blakehelgoth5247

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   My son was diagnosed with Asperger's just as the movement to stop calling it that was picking up steam. So, now his diagnosis is autism, be he got that before the new 1, 2, and 3 levels. They just casket it High Functioning Autism – kinda a misnomer in a way that led to much misunderstanding. He still lives at home and works part time. He has a genius IQ, what is an able to complete University because of several other comorbities.

   I have a soon to be born granddaughter with Down's Syndrome.

   I appreciated learning more about each.

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   @TheRealCeeJai

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   23:24 True, but ALS is way easier to say than Lou Gehrig.

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   @redmoonxstudios

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   14:08 Joe, I’ve watched so many of your videos and have been subscribed for a while. Please understand I mean this in the kindest way possible: I don’t know if this needs to be an edit you do later, but talking about Downs history of medical racism (comparison of his studies to Black individuals due to physical morphisims) and immediately following it up with “He’s a wholesome guy, I promise” is capital-w White politics. The whiplash I got from hearing that was a lot, and I’m saying this as a caucasian person. The strawman for this is ‘but victorian mindsets were different, etc.’ The response is ‘and the person making the argument is not living in victorian times.’ I like a lot of the videos of yours that I watch, but this was like taking a brick to the face. Downs was an open racist, and that is not wholesome.

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   @R28B

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   mildly surprised Strangelove Syndrome wasn't an honourable mention 😉

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   @EvelynDayless

   August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

   Rasputin actually helped the kid, but it was because he had the doctors stop treating him and they were having him take aspirin. Just one of those happy little accidents

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    @prw56

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Anytime I hear someone say "neurodiversity" they lose so much credibility. Stop rebranding mental disabilities, they are what they are.

    That's like if a baby was born without legs and we called it "mobility diverse". I know what the intention is, but you can still look on the bright side and be glad for what you have without lying to yourself about your struggles.

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    @georgemcconnell5405

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    As soon as you said how many factors we got in there, i got a factor commercial. So at least one more.

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    @ilenisaatio

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Grunya Sukhareva beat Hans Asperger to defining autism traits by a good decade and almost another. But, you know, her being a Soviet citizen and a woman at that kinda made her not relevant to Western science.

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    @georgemcconnell5405

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Im here for the roller coaster. Go joe, go.

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    @edkwon

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Went to medical school, so yeah I've probably learned the reasons for the names of MANY diseases, far more than what the average non medical people would know.

    I gradually boiled them down to this basic naming convention:

    A disease is often named after
    1. The scientists to first discover and clinically define the disease (and/ or cause)

    2. The unfortunate first documented person to be diagnosed with the disease.

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    @michaelharvey7613

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Graves disease

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    @tatata1543

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    You are asking who Lou Gehrig was? Really?

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    @fallenonedracial

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    I got diagnosed with the now defunct aspergers when I was 19-20, roughly 2010/11. Before then while getting tested as a child I was labled as lazy and preferred to be off in my own little world in my head. It also turns out that I have at least one uncle who has it, possibly 2.

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    @lzrdkng

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    the way Joe said "not that old" makes me think he is near 56. but i would have guessed like 47. just about a decade older than me, like about my sisters age.

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    @BAM-xn9to

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    TL;DW It's because everyone thought it was "Ass burgers". I'll have one with cheese please.

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    @NeilJobson

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Arse burgers.

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    @MXDash

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    I'd like to thank Doctor Attention Deficit for naming my condition.

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    @fanfand5312

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Med student here and we once had a debate about disease names. It went something like would you rather have a descriptive but gross name that exactly reflects what you're going through, or have a disease with an eponymous name where someone else will go "eh?" after hearing it? I'm not quite sure of the conclusion we reached but to me, the beauty of an eponymous name is that you as a patient can choose whether to and how much to explain to the person that you're talking to

    The biggest con, as Joe mentioned, is that there's a buttload of names from Nazis and some of them are getting replaced

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    @ColmBolger-h8k

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Curious about Moe The Toe 😮

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    @Fat-Stack

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Joe… you might have a ghost. It won't stop adjusting your hanging plant.

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    @gingergoodner9363

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Dude!!! First time I’ve laughed all day! I thank you! 👉🏻👌🏻

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    @Carlito84Qc

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    I remember kids still in the 90s telling one another how they were "mongols'" to insult one another

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    @UncleKennysPlace

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    I am a carrier for Werner Syndrome, which is thankfully recessive, and named after the discoverer, as opposed to a sufferer.
    I'm also autistic, and old enough that "high-functioning autistic" was the only term used by doctors (back in the day, and again today.)

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    @Jesusholmes64

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Political correctness is a poison…

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    @yestedayssolutionstotodays816

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    I live in the Netherlands, and can tesstify that even in the late 80’s and early 90’s children with Down were still often referred to as ‘little mongols’…

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    @lauratictoc

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Is that the same Charcot as Charcot Marie Tooth disease? (Also great disease name)

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    @RockTheBass

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    I have a double eponymous genetic syndrome, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS). It's named after Edvard Ehlers (a Danish dermatologist) and Henri-Alexandre Danlos (a French physician).

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    @variant-cover

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Would have been cool if you were able to chill with Hank Green while working on this episode. He just dropped one about disease as well.

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    @koffieanon

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    So every Hodgkin disease is named after Wilks' colleague. Shouldn't every non-Hodgkin diagnosis be called Wilks then? 🤔

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    @RobDeFino

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Alice in Wonderland syndrome is absolutely wild. I’ve had it for as long as I can remember. Acts up when I’m stressed or tired, would just happen randomly when I was a child. Saying you perceive a body part being bigger doesn’t really do it justice but I can’t think of a better way to describe it. It’s not the conscious perception, it’s like the underlying framework of size gets messed up. Super hard to explain.

    Also deal with exploding head syndrome. Also when tired or stressed. That one suuuuucks.

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    @xpndblhero5170

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    6:28 – ANSWER THE QUESTION JOE….

    🤣🤣

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    @Luma994

    August 19, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome (EDS)

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