What is your diagnostic label?

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Of course, some of this is going to be redandant anyway soon, but I'm curious given claims in another thread that most people with PDD-NOS are "too low-functioning" to participate here.

Labels dismiss human identity.

ASD.

I was under the impression that people with PDD-NOS didn't fit into either the HFA or AS labels; but weren't always low functioning?

And also create divisions where there should'nt be (AS, HFA, PDD-NOS).

The term "aspie" is a little exclusionary since they only make up 9% of the autism population vs. 47% for PDD-NOS (my label) or NLD (1% of the general population).

To be taken in small doses.

Such claims are never really supportable. I find that sometimes people make such arguments in order to justify their own attempts to speak for or over other autistic people. I don't know if that was the case in your example, though.

In another discussion, someone else described reading about how PDD-NOS is characteristically mild due to the way the criteria are constructed.

ASD.

Originally (age ten): Autistic. Musical savant. Epileptic. Insomniac. PTSD.
Late Adolescence: Autistic with increasing social anxiety. Insomniac. PTSD.
Early thirties: Aspergers. ADHD co-morbid. Agoraphobic Insomniac.
Now: ASD. ADHD co-morbid. Epileptic. PTSD.
...and there's always been synesthesia and some issues with auditory processing thrown in, for good measure. Quite a mixture to have lived with in one head in one lifetime. It really does help to simply the complexity.

What I believe: This is ASD. Some aspects can be treated with medications and/or helped with CBT; some cannot. One simple acronym cannot describe a wide spectrum of possible symptoms which may change dramatically under varying conditions: job stress, relationship stress, unemployment, homelessness, bullying, loss of supportive friends or family. Then again, one simple acronym must suffice.

ASD can be perceived in different ways at different times and manifests in different ways at different times. I have had ADHD all of my life. I have grown up with PTSD and it is easier to cope with at some times than at others. For awhile, I did not seem to have seizures of any kind. Then it became apparent that the epilepsy which manifested in one form when I was a child and adolescent returned and "changed shape" in adulthood. It is less dramatic in the way it appears to others, but is probably more dangerous to me because it is subtle and moves very quickly. I was experiencing brief episodes for years before recognizing that I was losing consciousness...and falling down for no reason....and sometimes breaking bones.

I do not like labels, but the world we live in seems to require them. When I was told I had Aspergers, I said: "Oh well, okay." It really made no difference to anything I'd been told about myself before. Now that the diagnosis is being in some sense invalidated? I recall that two out of three times, Autism was the diagnosis and the fact that I am high functioning was obtained via standardized IQ testing. I was not "special cased." Does it make a difference to say ASD rather than Aspergers? Not to me. I have a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder. It includes some other inconveniences that can be separated out or just included as part of the package. After all, we're all only who we are. Not easily categorized, incredibly similar and impossibly unique.

Nonsense.

Labels ARE identity.
Identifying IS the act of labeling.
They are one and the same thing.

I also got "Adaptive Behavior Deficits" tacked on to my list of diagnosis'.

pddnos

Aspie 9%, our polls not working out that way, and for folks using the DSM PDD-NOS is only going to go down. Also asperger will still be in the ICD and others, i'm not entirely sure what guide I was Dxed with(Canada) other then I got asperger syndrome.

Why is PDD-NOS going to go down? I think they will roll it up into one autism spectrum. I think some doctors overdiagnose Asperger's, especially in adults. I probably would have gotten Asperger's from some of the doctors others here have gone to, but mine was very strict about following the DSM for CURRENT behavior, not just past behavior. So the fact that I don't rock and hand flap and talk about my special interests all the time got me PDD-NOS. Probably my past language delay, too. But I've heard of others getting DXed with Asperger's as adults who had a language delay as children. So dunno. It's all very subjective.

Becouse meny getting PDD-NOS now won't qualify for all the new required criteria for those using the DSM. You may quailify though, i'm no expert and I can't claim to have paid a lot of attention. Infact you read/research more of this infomation then I do.

Asperger's