Teredia wrote:
after finding out that the new DMS-V (5) that is to be released i believe sometime this year, that Aspergers Syndrome no longer will be a diagnosable disorder and thus no longer exists. That people is they do not fit the diagnosis of autism that they will lose their diagnosis.
I find this quite alarming because ive come to identify with AS and being AS even though no one in my current area wants to handle a case of Adult Aspergers and actually give me a proper diagnosis.
I have a lot of friends who also feel that they will in a sense lose part of their identity if there is no longer a diagnosis called Aspergers Syndrome.
So what will happen? I know that once the DSM's get swapped over to the 5th edition thats it it wont exist as a diagnosis but what will happen to the thousands of current aspies out there who identify as Aspies.
Aspies wont just dissapere will they? or will people push for the terminology to be coined again and re-introduced into future DSM's?
all of a sudden i feel so alone in the world, not knowing where I fit. AS gave me the answers it helped me see there really wasnt anything wrong with me, i feel that if AS doesnt exist i will just become that generalised weirdo/freak again.
What has happened in similar situations is that yes, communities were broken up. However, there are alot of people here who don't have Aspergers at all, so the the situation may be different. In any case, we all seem to have some similarities, mostly with social problems. So Wrong Planet will very likely continue to exist for us but have to market itself in other ways to connect with everyone. Those of us labeled with aspergers will likely fall under some other disorder. So we will have to keep an eye on the DSMV and figure out what diagnosis we receive, or establish ourselves as a community of people not identified by the DSM but still having common culture.
What we really need is a culture that is independent of diagnosis. We are just neurodiverse. NDs if you will, or endies, perhaps ender? I think I saw that term used elsewhere, but usually ender means some form of truck driver. It would seem it is time to take up the banner of neurodiversity. If anything I think this movement will be of benefit to ND movement. It is a sad fact that people with social troubles can be easily herded into a new personality through the use of suggestion (similar to hypnotic suggestion, but there is no hypnosis necessary... social isolation serves to do just the same only better and more reliable). Diagnose those with social troubles and they will look for the behaviors in themselves that are similar to those listed in the DSM, find similarity and attribute that behavior to their "disease." It is a cunning way to make people identify themselves to their peers as having "mental issues."
The therapy that we all need in the neurodiversity movement is to redefine the word personality. Personality are the traits that connect us to other people. They are the antithesis of those traits that separate us from the communities of others. Two sentences ago it would appear as though I've made a grammatical error. This is not the case. In redefining "Personality" I've changed it's grammar rules.
When personality separates us from others it is used against us as a weapon. So adopt no trait, seek to find nothing within yourself that separates you from others. What would happen if instead of being diagnostic in nature, psychology was pregnostic. Pregnostic meaning that its DSM listed what it was about personality that was healthy to adopt. Essentially suggesting us into being a part of the world that is now distant and difficult for us to understand?
09 Apr 2012, 10:55 pm
