LOl I don't even have aspergers, I am just PDD-NOS

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It is like autism, but its not necessarily autism more just overlaps so not even sure if I belong here. I mean there is certainly a seperate wiki for PDD-NOS from the autism one.

But my issues are not all related to my neurology, looking back seems like that was just one part...otherwise I didn't have a lot of friends and my parents, mom especially tried to be too sheltering, so I kinda figure that did not exactly help the situation.

WP is inclusive. If you like being here, you belong here.
The criteria of ASD are shifting all the time and there is really a lot not yet understood by even the best specialists. Medical diagnoses have a purpose of guiding medical treatment and/or officially-recognized support. Communities are based on relatibility. If you find people on WP relatable, it doesn't matter what your papers say.

I won't be surprised if PDD-NOS will be incorporated into Autism Spectrum on the next revision of DSM.

Does PDD-NOS exclude all the sensory stuff that goes with ASD? I was a toewalking child and have elevated sensory sensitivities and other neurological stuff, but I don't have an official diagnosis yet.

You don't need to be diagnosed with autism or Asperger's to belong on WP. Even NTs are welcome.

I think I've got PDD-NOS. I don't feel like I qualify enough for autism, even though I was diagnosed with Asperger's but that was back in the 90s. Now that Asperger's has been taken out of the latest DSM-whatever it's called, I feel autism is just not me. I have ADHD and anxiety disorder, and I think that if I didn't have those two then I might be more or less NT. It just seems that my ADHD and anxiety disorder together form some autism traits that might not be existent if I didn't have ADHD or anxiety disorder (I think I might also have OCD).

It's a bit like ADHD is red, anxiety is yellow, but the two colours mixed together makes orange, which is autism. (This is not speaking for others with autism, it's just an analogy in my personal case).

It already has been, partially. PDD-NOS is not in the DSM 5. People who previously would have been diagnosed with PDD-NOS would now be classified as either ASD or "social communication disorder."

I’m glad that you’re here, sweetleaf.

Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)
This is more or less the same as atypical autism. (said by Lorna Wing)

http://www.aspie-editorial.com/whats-in-a-label/

PDD-NOS is a legitimate Spectrum condition.

I was under the impression it is fully, in the United States. We're all ASD now with different 'levels'.

Or not as much "levels" as "compositions" - uneven profiles are more common here than not

I thought PDD-NOS was lumped under the autism spectrum.

I used to have time to go to the local autism/aspergers support group in our city. At one of the meetings I met a lady who brought her grown son who was diagnosed with PDD-NOS. Which she explained to me meant "we cant figure out what condition youve got, but youve got something" .

In style of thinking I think you are more NT than most WP members. But you still belong here.

PDD-NOS meant you didn’t meet the full diagnostic criteria for autism.

You could have been extremely low-functioning, or extremely high-functioning—and everywhere in between.

Many people with PDD-NOS were relatively high-functioning, though.

It was considered a full-fledged member of the Autistic Spectrum.