Talking about diagnosis

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Hi I was diagnosed with asperger's in 2011, my doctor says that I could could have aspergers or classic autism. Because I have speech disorders, the debate is whether the speech issues are related to autism or apraxia and mixed receptive expressive language disorder. To add to the confusion in 4 years, I have been diagnosed with Aspergers, Autism spectrum disorder, and in 2015 Autistic disorder. Honestly I don't care. But other people do. To me I can't understand why the distinction is important. I either have HFA or aspergers. Is their really a difference?

Presumably, the main difference is wether you had delayed language when you were young or not, something that can also have indirect consequences in adulthood I guess if you've not compensated on some points because you didn't notice it/never had the occasion to. Otherwise, it's really, really similar, so much that quite a lot of people want to merge them.

They got rid of Aspergers is DSM V & now use Autism Spectrum Disorder & have 3 functioning levels.

Meh, its all ASD now.

I say get evaluated if you need additional aid and your current diagnoses does not meet your needs.

No, it is not all ASD now. First it is supposed to be only ASD now if you use the DSM 5 manual. Many locations in this world use the ICD manual where Asperger Syndrome remains. Even in locations such as America where the DSM manual is described as "the bible" and where the American Psychological Association wrote the DSM 5, clinicians do not lose thier license if they do not follow the DSM. It is now over 2 1/2 years since the DSM 5 came out and yet we still get occasional posts from people in DSM domiment locations who have been just diagnosed with Aspergers.

IN 2015 I was diagnosed with Autistic disorder using the ICD 10

" . . . we still get occasional posts from people in DSM domiment locations who have been just diagnosed with Aspergers." Yup, last year in Britain my dx read " . . . ASD Asperger's type . . . "

I was diagnosed in the UK this year (2015) under the DSMV with ASD. They did not specify a level but did say during the process that they were no longer diagnosing Aspergers. Personally I think the distinction is fuzzy at best, particularly in adulthood, and actually prefer to use terms to describe myself that are either spectrum-based, or simply say 'autistic'.