Asperger Syndrome has been considered under the veil of Autism in Canada for a while now, at least casually if not officially, and it doesn't seem to be making it more difficult to get support.
I can see why it would be classified as an ASD, since many of the symptoms associated with Asperger Syndrome seem to be directly related to atypical development of the Amygdala, which is also implicated in other spectrum disorders.
The Amygdala are two nodes in the brain which are connected to several areas of neural development, including emotional learning and response, anxiety modulation, non-verbal social skills, memory formation, and gender identity.