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Another big problem I want to point out is that I did a research that some people lose ASD diagnosis just because they no longer fit the diagnostic criteria for an ASD diagnosis. This is the fault of the "Spectrum", because Autism is a developmental disorder, it does not go away.

Either Autism, as a "Spectrum" disorder is proven to be too broad, or we need to make the symptoms of ASD much stricter so not too many people get diagnosed and lose their diagnosis later on and/ or if we want to make Autism more broad, we should include people who have Broad Autism Phenotype, they should be diagnosed with ASD-related disorders as well. And or the DSM-5 and ICD-11 should protect us from losing ASD diagnosis, by stating "Even if you no longer meet the diagnostic criteria for an ASD diagnosis later in life, you still have some kind of Pervasive Developmental Disorder, because all the symptoms of ASD was evident in your childhood and that is all you need and having developed social skills and reducing all traits of ASD later in life should not make you lose an ASD diagnosis."

What I meant to say is that even if you did so well and improved your symptoms of ASD to the point of ASD level 0, you still have ASD, because you had symptoms of ASD evident from your childhood and that is all that you need.

I meant to point out how the problem "Spectrum" of Autism can be to the point either some people lose their ASD diagnosis or psychology failed us and that there is probably a lot of people that have ASD that is not diagnosed and were never studied.

I am sorry, I think I understand what you mean. I made my own version of the "Spectrum" very generalized, but I hope you know what I meant about the issues with the "Spectrum" in general.

All of you are making good points. And, when it comes to "Spectrum" I am definitely a layperson--I studied and worked in computers, our spectrum was ZERO or ONE.

Thank you!

Yes, but if NTs hear the word 'Spectrum" there is 99.99% chance that they will be confused and ask themselvs if they are really normal or just have ASD that is not diagnosed. I think the "Spectrum" should be made for only to ASD that is diagnosed or the DSM and ICD should use a different language and make sure that the symptoms of ASD are strict so too many people don't get diagnosed with ASD as I explained above. And or we make ASD even more broad as to include people who are well developed social skills, but have too much restricted interests or repetitive behaviors, as well sensory issues as well, but with social skills.

When I was in general ed classroom, I sometimes heard some students without a diagnosis of ASD getting confused and asking questions if they have ASD that is not diagnosed, because as I explained before, ASD goes from being very disabled to being in normal state of mind to the point were symptoms of ASD gets milder and milder that it is very hard to differentiate the very mild symptoms of ASD from NT traits and might not get diagnosed until you are much older or have ASD that was never diagnosed at all. That is what I worry about is that "Spectrum" is close to pie=3.14, close to infinity.

The problem is that I never had a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome, I only had a diagnosis of PDD-NOS until 2013. In 2013 I was considered to have ASD.

I am worried that I will feel like a fraud if I tell NTs that I have Asperger Syndrome, because I only have history of being diagnosed with PDD-NOS. It is only in 2013 my diagnosis of PDD-NOS changed to Autism Spectrum Disorder.

I hope you understand my confusion of suptypes of PDDs and why I prefer to say that I have ASD instead.

I am not sure what "dilemma" means from your point of view, but, yes, I prefer to say that I have milder form of Autism.

Another problem I wanted to point out is that most medical professionals rely on looking at the behaviors to diagnose ASD, but the problem is if you have milder form of Autism, most of your symptoms can disappear late in life, if improved with therapy. I hope we have much better technically in the future to diagnose people with ASD rather than on relying on behaviors alone. But if you have severe or profound form of Autism, then that would be a completely different story compare to people with milder traits of ASD regardless if it is diagnosed or not.

I actually do have milder problems with social skills, I just don't really realize until I read my medical and school records. But to say that I don't have problems at all feels wrong.

I still need to meet my IEP goals when it comes to my lack of social-emotional reciprocity as well.

I feel upset by what you said, because I had to work ten times harder to develop social skills, because of my history of developmental delay. I can disclose diagnosis of my ASD diagnosis if I wanted to.

I am sorry that I am upset, it's just I have been through a lot, because of my history of communication delays from my early childhood.