Diagnosis REMOVED without my knowledge?!?!

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hello.
I just found out my (new) doctor REMOVED my diagnose of f84.8 (PDD-NOS) without re-evaluating me, or asking me, or talking to me about it?
Can he do that? I feel stressed about this whole mess now.

It sounds very strange. Could you involve your parents? They have more authority than a fifteen year old. They can demand, that he gives them an explanation.
It could be a mistake.

I think that he must have forgotten it (he is old). I hope it is a mistake. If my therapist does not ask him i will ask my parents to ask him.

What do you mean by "removed"? Although this isn't the recommended route, some doctors/psychologists/psychiatrists are adjusting official diagnoses of PDD-NOS and AS (which both no longer "exist", according to the DSM-5) to Autism Spectrum Disorder.

That would make sense, but only if he replaced it with another diagnosis.

Like converting the same amount of money to another currency: a doctor conceivably might go over your tests and decide that by the new criteria if this patient had the same results on the same tests I gave them they would NOW be classified under such-and-such a new category, rather than as the old abandoned label. But it sounds like instead converting dollars to pounds, or yards to meters, he just converted something to nothing at all!

It's just not in my papers anymore. Where I live we follow the icd10 so I don't understand why the doctor removed it. When I go to therapy next time ill ask them if it was a mistake or not (I hope it was)