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Last edited by littlelily613 on 16 Apr 2011, 5:08 pm, edited 2 times in total.

In order to get a diagnosis of Asperger's, you can't meet the criteria for another pervasive development disorder.

From the DSM-IV

F.Criteria are not met for another specific Pervasive Developmental Disorder or Schizophrenia.

I am aware of that.

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Last edited by littlelily613 on 16 Apr 2011, 5:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It depends on who's diagnosing you and what they think.

Yes, and I will officially go by what they say. I am only looking for opinions which I do not intend on repeating there.

I just changed the title of the post since no one seems to want to answer the question. I advocate professional diagnoses on here more than most people I see, so I will clarify I am not looking for a diagnosis. I do not intend to take these answers with me and say "see! People on wrong planet think this, so I MUST have it!" I am not that moronic! I am REALLY just looking for OPINIONS about what people think of what I said. If you don't have one, don't feel like you must say something. I am not going to stop being curious.....

I'd say, if you want to stick with official criteria, the official diagnosis is more likely to be classic autism (because of the speech delay). As for the regression in skills, I just posted in another thread that regressions in practically any skill are very common in all PDDs. There is a theory about why this happens but I won't go into detail, it is very scientific stuff.

If the lost skills are recovered later, this rules out Rett syndrome and CDD only. The other three are trickier, for an example, classical autism and Aspergers have only one distinguishing feature according to DSM-IV, presence or absence of speech delay. PDD-NOS is diagnosed when criteria for the former two conditions are not met fully or there are only some of the criteria that are met.

This is what your doctor would look for when they examine you. Of course, it depends very much on the therapist but that's what is written in the books and what usually psychologists go by.

Last edited by Severus on 16 Apr 2011, 5:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well, I mean, my opinion is that it could go either way depending on who's diagnosing you. A lot of people who fit the criteria for AS also fit the criteria for autism, but get diagnosed with AS anyway. I don't think a lot of people follow the DSM-IV criteria that says that you only diagnose AS if you don't meet criteria for another PDD.

If they follow it strictly, autism.



I am sorry if you got anything like this out of my post.

Last edited by Verdandi on 16 Apr 2011, 4:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I think people are not answering because we are trying to figure out just why in the world anyone would care if they are Asperger's, Autism or PDD-NOS. The DSM-V folks are even trying to do away with all these words because (in the end) they are just words. If you are wired towards ASD, then it will manifest itself in similar ways (given the same IQ) in 2 people no matter if they had Language troubles or not. Also because it is all so fuzzy it really does matter on which person evaluates you on which DX you get but those words tend to mean absolutely nothing to you with respect to services or anything else. Perhaps you can elaborate on why this even matters over the degree to which you are affected (which has bloody NOTHING to do with these words btw)

*sigh* I was just curious. My goodness, do I regret posting ANYTHING now since apparently there is something clearly wrong with just being curious! *sigh again*

Pure and simple curiousity. I don't care anymore anyway, let's all just drop it.

I used to fret on this too and you know what, who cares what autism diagnoses I have. They're all on the spectrum. Doctors don't follow the DSM anyway, they use it more like a road map.

I get you were just curious.

Thanks. I am not fretting though. I am really only just curious. And I am still curious, but apparently an autism board is not the place for me to discuss autism diagnoses. Oh well, I guess I will find out soon enough.

Ask your doctor about it or a therapist, if you are still seeing one.

That was the plan. I have a meeting next month. I was just looking for opinions to my big long post, which I deleted this afternoon.

Well, the ensuing posts since I last looked at this thread are completely confusing.

Where did you get that you shouldn't ask?