Can someone help me find this info?

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I'm looking for the information that designates the "severity" ratings for the DSM-V... mild, moderate, severe, etc. Like how they decide which one you are. I've looked for an hour and can't find it anywhere.

Thanks in advance.

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They took it down from the site, that is why it is so hard to find.

Oh geez. Maybe that means it's going to change. I wonder.

Thanks though!

Hmm, maybe they will. I don't have any real issues with it except that it's possible to be at one "level" by one criterion and another level on the other (I am "mild" in communication and "moderate" in behaviors/interests, for example.)

I agree, it's not perfect. I like how it takes into consideration "sub-clinical AS" but I have to wonder at the differences between mild and moderate ASD. It doesn't seem very concrete at just that without any further guidelines. I check the page every once in awhile to see if they've updated it, but no luck so far.

Callista, I am the same, according to my parents. My psychiatrist will probably go with mild, if that's how it goes, though. My therapist, who knows me much better, will probably go with moderate.

It's more like, I know the therapist better and am not afraid to be myself. I don't make myself sick for the sake of being verbal for her anymore, and she's seen me off in my own, unreachable world.

It's the same as the Asperger's/autism issue. Mild/moderate. What day? What hour?

Does it matter, really? They have to address individual skills anyhow; and doctors willingly fudge things toward the severe to get accommodations for kids at school. I don't particularly care what severity level I get labeled with, so long as I can keep getting the help I need to fill in the gaps between what I can do and what society expects of me, so I can keep living my life.

I could care less if they call it autism ot Fruit Loops, as long as it gets me what I need. I just have a huge thing about everyone agreeing, and it drives me nuts when my doctors don't all use the same labels. I don't care WHICH one they pick, as long as the pick the SAME one. But no, it doesn't really matter.