Is Asperger's off the new DSM?

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Is it? I sure hope so, just for the sake of stopping over-diagnosis in kids that really got out of control a few years back. If so, what was the title changed to? mild autistic disorder or something. I've really been curious about this, but haven't heard anything in the media in regards to what's going on with the changes.

Essentially the DSM-V has merged the main autism disorders into an actual spectrum from mild to severe. This has far more to do with reducing the use of the incredibly nondescript term of PDD-NOS - Pervasive Development Disorder Not Otherwise Specified far more than it has anything to do with Asperger's. In addition, having it listed as autism is entirely true, so I really don't see why people are up in arms about it. It'll most likely mention that Asperger's is an alternative name for mild autism, but it's autism either way. The stats for these are very skewed, as you'll see here: " 6 per 1,000 for autism spectrum disorders as a whole, however prevalence rates vary for each of the developmental disorders in the spectrum. Autism prevalence has been estimated at 1-2 per 1,000, Asperger syndrome at roughly 0.6 per 1,000, childhood disintegrative disorder at 0.02 per 1,000, and PDD-NOS at 3.7 per 1,000."

To sum up, having more specific levels of severity listed is not removing mild autism from being a diagnosis, whether it's still called Asperger's or mild autism: They mean the same thing.

This year in the USA it was changed to ASD (spspecified further by a scale/"spectrum" of severity) will change next year in UK. The change was said to be because they (psychiatrists in consultation with e.g. NAS) wanted the diagnosis to be more streamlined found this out last year.

This year I realised its because of the lack of proof regarding Asperger's although if you look at the DSM most things in it aren't accurate. The current version is the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual version 5) for those that don't know... And Statistics are never accurate.