Changes to the definition of 'Autism'
I have recently heard of changes that have been made to the definition of what is 'autism' and what is not. I have also heard that 'asperger's' has been discarded.
I am a little confused about this as i am hoping that sometime i will ask my parents if i can get tested.
Could someone please explain this to me in a simple, but accurate way??!
Thanks
This is all particularly in relation to the publication of the DSM V. There are many issues at crux of this DSM release.
The culmination of all diags that we would be concerned with into a generalized Autism diag is one. Asperger syndrome will be eliminated as a separate disorder, and merged under autism spectrum disorders. Under the new classification, clinicians would rate the severity of clinical presentation of ASD as severe, moderate or mild.
Also, Happiness, Saddness, and Anger are supposed to be released in the DSM and codified as actual diagnosis points.
Additionally codification of ADHD (based on the onset of symptoms) may become increasingly more exact, and as a result lead to less false positive diags.
Gender Identity Disorder (GID) has been proposed to be renamed as "Gender Dysphoria" in the DSM 5. Along with these changes comes the creation of a separate Gender Dysphoria in Children as well as one for Adults and Adolescents. The grouping will be moved out of the Sexual Disorders category and into its own. This is apparently designed to stop some forms of false positive diagnosis in early age, and to separate Gender Identity Disorder from a typical social related condition.
There are many changes to the DSM V and a few communities are fighting the changes.
We must be patient with this, it does not diminish us in anyway.
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As it currently is in the DSM (manual for disorders), autism is splintered into a spectrum of disorders, among others autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome, and PDD-NOS.
In the revision of the DSM for next year, it has been proposed that the autistic spectrum is collapsed into a single 'autism spectrum disorder'. It means that, where before there were different names for different 'types' of autistic disorders, it is now no longer considered relevant to make this distinction, and everyone who meets the criteria will have the diagnosis 'autism spectrum disorder'.
It's something of a streamlining.
The way it looks now, there will still be distinctions in this new diagnosis, but they will be based on functioning level, roughly corresponding to 'mild', 'moderate', and 'severe'.
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