My health clinic must be behind

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I thought they got rid of mentally ret*d and made it to intellectual disabled or intellectual disability but on my paper I recently got that is about Maternal serum marker screening and on the back page is mentioned a couple conditions like problems with baby's brain or spine and Down's syndome and it mentioned mental retardation.

My husband did say it will take years before doctors catch up with the new DSM because that is what he read online and heard on TV. How many doctors knew about AS when it appeared in the DSM? I am sure they were all still stuck on classic autism and didn't know what AS was and very few doctors knew about it then. Now today, bunch of kids with it get diagnosed while back then, very few did.

Yes that true. In my country Asperger's is still a rare diagnosis, but it's getting more recognized since a short while.
My therapist doesn't even believe it exists because in his opinion they didn't need it before to dx ppl, so they also don't need it now.

I personally was dx by an autism expert some years ago with HFA, but now having a normal psychiatrist was re-dx with ADD instead because a school report in elementry school wrote that I was searching for contact in my own way.

Well the changes in the DSM-5 don't affect me that much, because we use the ICD-10 here.
But psychiatry needs approx. upto 10 years to adjust to the new changes and in that time, they'll be propably working on a new DSM.