Many psychiatrists, providers haven?t moved to DSM-5

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http://healthitanalytics.com/2014/08/19 ... -to-dsm-5/

A boost to my morale to read this. This is some validation for what posters who have been diagnosed recently have been reporting. It is however at odds with the opinion of most posters here and bloggers I have read.

This suggests that the death of Aspergers diagnosis is not inevitable. But unless the community changes it's mind it is still likely.

I've noticed the UK still seems to diagnose with the term "Asperger's", but from what I gather they may follow the US next year and use "ASD" instead.

From the UK here, and got an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. The psychiatrist never even mentioned Asperger's.

I'm annoyed now I never asked about it. At the time I assumed it was because Asperger's had been phased out as a diagnosis, but now I'm not so sure. My mum reported a language delay up to the age of 5, so maybe it was that which swung the diagnosis to ASD.

"Asperger's Syndrome" is never going to go away completely. I mean, just because something isn't in the DSM doesn't mean it doesn't exist, especially after 20+ years of having been an actual diagnostic entity. I have both AS and NVLD, neither of which are included in the DSM-5, but that doesn't make either of those conditions any less "real." It's just like how mixed episodes in bipolar disorder have been described since Kraepelin's time, but weren't always included in the DSM. Or how there's still a subset of people with schizophrenia who fall into a "paranoid" classification despite that no longer being in the DSM.

DSM-V is rather unpopular, but other diagnostic standards are headed that way.
The DSM-V is primarily North American, or so I've been lead to believe.
The claim is that it makes diagnosis easier by eliminating different diagnosis and placing them under umbrella terms. So now you get a broad diagnosis, that says even less about what parts of the disorder you have.