Would you lose your dx under DSM V?

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I fit the new definition like a glove, meeting all areas under A and B. I would be considered a level 1 autistic under the DSM V.

I need help with stuff (mostly because of anxiety and sensory overload and executive dysfunction), I know how to do all activities of daily living, but I have trouble actually doing them (initiation problems with executive dysfunction). But I do not need help like a person on the low functioning side, not that there is anything wrong with needing different levels of help.

No.

Try not to fall down the stairs and die at Minds & Hearts. (Kinda makes you wonder why they have such there when the people they see are often pathologically clumsy.) They don't use the DSM, just FYI and all. They use Gillberg's Criteria for Asperger's (well, that's the list the lady had with me).

I am not too sure. I feel I would and wouldn't because I still need support. My husband has to support me to help me out and I struggle through life because things get too stressful for me. But I don't feel impaired everyday. If I need help in some areas such as when it comes to learning, does that count as requiring support? My AS dx got me the help I needed through school and it was the support I needed and the work accommodations. Plus it kept me from getting punished for my meltdowns and behavior for when I get frustrated.

I also have anxiety so that could be causing me the impairments than autism. I may just slip through the cracks again. I don't think SCD would explain everything and ASD does but if I won't be meeting the new criteria, I am in between again.

I will still say I have AS or ASD after the new criteria comes out just like I say I have ADD than ADHD and I am not even sure if I still meet the criteria but I have traits of it.

Yes I would loose my diagnosis. Out of criteria A, I fit 2 criteria and 1 is probably questionable. Out of B, one is questionable. I think what fits me better out of the DSM 5 diagnosis is Social Communications Disorder. Heck, labels change all the time.

I'm wondering how they will differentiate between what is now considered PDD-NOS and Social Communication Disorder. Anyone know?

I'm a self-diagnosed AS and I doubt I'd qualify to be on the spectrum in 2013. May as well enjoy the experience of being autistic for 6 more months.

I have an Asperger's diagnosis, so yes, I will lose that diagnosis. As far as whether I'd qualify under the new overly generic "ASD" criteria, I really don't know. I feel that, like most ASD stereotypes, it focuses too much on social problems and not enough on the other deficits. I am not horribly socially awkward. I can "fake" being social well enough to hold down a job and such. What interferes with my life is sensory issues and hatred of change and not being able to tolerate neurotypicals for too long. And I'm very special interest-oriented with my AS, as well. When I got my initial AS diagnosis, I didn't know if I truly fit the AS criteria, either. Same goes for the DSM-V criteria. It is broad and generalized and uses too many terms that have extremely ambiguous operational definitions.

In addition, why in the world are sensory issues under "repetitive behaviors"?! While the only DSM-V change I applaud is finally including sensory issues, it has NOTHING to do with the other criteria "B" examples. I fit all of criteria "B." No idea about criteria "A." So, again, what does the DSM-V say is wrong with me, when clearly, criteria "B" interferes with my daily functioning?

I'd LOVE to lose my diagnosis. There doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do to help me, or anything anyone can teach me to help me help myself. They tell me how wonderful I am, how high-functioning I am, blah-blah-blah, s**t on a cracker.

And I understand that my struggles are relatively minor in the scheme of things.

I also understand that they're mine.

And that one of my struggles is the tendency to impose limitations on what I'm going to be allowed to do, what I'm going to be believed to be capable of, and how much people are going to bother to help me learn.

I hoped it would help. Shed some light, get me some specific training from someone who understands people like me.

But it's been nothing but a threat to the life I've built. Nothing but another knife that can be held to my throat when people want to manipulate me or desire to harm me from some ulterior motive or because I don't fit THEIR definition of "a good person."

I was "a bad person" or "a weak person" or "a stupid person" before. Now I'm all that, and "an incapable person who cannot _____________________ and should not be permitted to try (for her own good, really)" besides.

I was afraid this would happen when I sought diagnosis. I hoped I was wrong.

Autistic persons tend to be fatally naive.

I think I would lose the autism diagnosis but my current psychologist has said that I wouldn't though. My brother was also just diagnosed and in a way I think he is more autistic than I am. Here are the criteria I meet/ don't meet:
I don't think I will meet A 1. I can initiate and hold a back and forth conversation. Not as a child though.
I do meet A 2 and 3. All my friends are not appropriate to developmental level. Most are my parent's age although one is a little younger than I am. No interest in developing a actual relationship for marriage though. Too paranoid about that for real reasons that I won't get into here. My eye contact ranges from not enough, just right, and intense staring into another person's eyes. Not consistent at all. My affect is the opposite to most people with an ASD. It is exaggerated. Not flat.
Criteria B I meet all 4 of them completely. Not a problem with that and even worse when I was a child. Of course I meet C because right after I was born there were abnormalities.
Yes, it limits my daily functioning. I also have severe sensory overload with sound. it literally HURTS my ears and have to wear earplugs in most loud places. The thing that is getting worse with age is actually the sensory overload and rocking back and forth. Also hand flapping and doing other weird things.

I would not be considered "autistic" or "aspergers" under that DSM V. I may have a sensory processing disorder, but that is it. I am glad because I can avoid being put in services that are for people that are more impaired, when they do not apply to me. I can avoid social skills groups, which I do not need because the social skills issues (very mild) that I had have been gone for over 25 years (I am 33). I think they need to get rid of the "history" because many of us who had the correct therapies to where we no longer have symptoms should no longer have the label "autism" affecting our lives.
Basically, just like medicine can cure curable illness to where they are no longer considered "ill", the therapies could have helped one get rid of the issues of autism to where the person should no longer have that label. Even if someone has just the sensory issues, that should be downgraded and off the autism spectrum.
Labels are dangerous, especially when one could be placed in inappropriate services, services for issues that no longer have. That happened to me to where I was placed in an autism program, where I did not need any of the social skills or anything they offered. It had caused me severe depression. I had to fight out of them and was able to go into service that only looks for employment without the inappropriate programming. Today I am a college graduate who is looking for a job as a research assistant.
I am very grateful for the change. I wish they would have done this with the DSM-IV. I would have avoided such awful experiences being considered having a diagnosis that no longer applies to me.