How will the DSM-5 affect me?

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wow maybe this is why i dont tolerate the cold so well..it is a sensory issue! From this criteria i dont think i'd be diagnosed with an ASD disorder.
Good thing I am on ssi for my bad back and headaches.

"While it is true that brain scans and Neuroscience will be at the foundations of study moving forward, these tools are not useful without being combined and compared with clinical observation. What good is it know your brain lights up differently than a NT if you are unaware of what this means for your behavior? Furthermore I have yet to see the results of any study suggesting Autistic and Asperger brain scans are "considerably different"..

I have seen quite a few, but many of the studies had flaws as some studies do. And many I can only see an abstract of. The scans are currently inadequate and likewise is our understanding of the brain. Thats changing fast.

"I think there has been a considerable amount of raising voices without and concrete evidence suggesting a statistically significant reduction in diagnosis rate as a result of the updating of the DSM".

You disagree with the APA themselves? Its estimated at 10% but realistically what evidence do you require and who funds it?

"I believe the result is a simplified criteria for ASD. This would support a more individualized care instead of treating for a category. Perhaps more importantly it allows for Neuroscience to find any differences within the spectrum instead of depending on clinical study. All in all I think it is a positive step

The "simplified criteria" is oversimplified and a huge step backwards in general understanding and social treatment. It will be largely irrelevant soon as neuroscience kicks on imo. It makes it simple for people who use DSM and its those interests behind the change.

With regards your last sentence. speak to this guy................http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress

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Sound positive?

I disagree. There is massive under diagnosis but also a total misunderstanding of what it means anyway.

There is nothing wrong with criteria but there is a lot wrong with DSM definitions and many of the beliefs that underpin them and what follows its use. DSM is not authoritative and in fact very dangerous and self-interested publication seeking to label any and every aspect of human behavior as a "disorder". The changes are highly questionable and bias towards drug intervention for rather obvious reasons. The changes suit the APA, its members and associates.

I do not believe having AS and Autism proper separate is excessive. Two is very low number. Lumping together is just broad brush simplification of the most complex object in the universe.

Can you please quote it right?

http://www.dsm5.org/Lists/ProposedRevision/DispForm.aspx?ID=94

Is our society BETTER now that we have pretty much every aspect of the human behaviour as a "disorder"?

I'm in the 10% and less precise categorization does not more accurately categorize anything. Under DSM 5 im no longer autistic.

Where is the over-diagnosis evidence? What are the "realities of the behaviors"? Its far too multifactoral for DSM models and DSM covers a wide RANGE of "disorders" and widens the bracket for many marketable drugs.

It does not make my argument "irrational" the manual is wider than AS and ASD. The criticisms of DSM 5 are vast and being ignored.

"excluding more individuals from an already under-diagnosed disorder?" Im confused regarding your view of under or over diagnosis. If it excludes more people from an under diagnosed disorder then this is making detection worse.

To the OP - http://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/ ... _final.pdf

DSM may influence your insurance, diagnosis for like peers and lead to being called Autistic when you are in reality an Aspie.

Hopefully many of the changes will be ignored in practice - but it will have a negative effect for many. Allen Frances, M.D., was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force writes............ "This is the saddest moment in my 45 year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association has given its final approval to a deeply flawed DSM 5 containing many changes that seem clearly unsafe and scientifically unsound. My best advice to clinicians, to the press, and to the general public - be skeptical and don't follow DSM 5 blindly down a road likely to lead to massive over-diagnosis and harmful over-medication. Just ignore the ten changes that make no sense"

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm ... st-changes

I do not meet DSM V criteria. If I am forced into general autism category. I will kill myself.

What's the best thing that can happen?
Diagnosticians will realize that autism can show up in different ways, with symptoms varying in quality and intensity.

What's the worst thing that can happen?
The diffuse wording will result in utter chaos. Less obvious cases will be declined a diagnosis, and patients will be stigmatized and receive the wrong kind of support.

I believe in Murphy's law, so I always consider the worst case.