IT'S OFFICIAL: No More Aspergers

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01 Dec 2012, 7:47 pm

Man, what a DIS-SERVICE to all of us diagnosed....now we are just all "Autistic" and/or have DMDD.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ ... l-17856914

Some Moron just waved a wand & POOF we are all different...of course, the DSM re-write isn't out until May of next year.

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01 Dec 2012, 7:52 pm

We are all just autistic now. Of course, we already were but that is a whole other debate...

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01 Dec 2012, 7:58 pm

Oh, my.....

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01 Dec 2012, 8:07 pm

The headline implies a different message than the body text of the article. I take no issue with the article as written. I suppose the use of the word "dropped" in the headline is intended to be incendiary in order to pull in more readers. Standard media practice.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:09 pm

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"To give it separate names never made sense to me," Gibson said. "To me, my children all had autism."

It makes perfect sense to me. Autism is a general diagnosis, aspergers is a specific diagnosis, allowing for more precise treatment methods. There's no harm whatsoever in breaking down a spectrum into component parts to help with treatment.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:10 pm

abc wrote:

The aim is not to expand the number of people diagnosed with mental illness, but to ensure that affected children and adults are more accurately diagnosed so they can get the most appropriate treatment, said Dr. David Kupfer. He chaired the task force in charge of revising the manual and is a psychiatry professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Oh for christs sake.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:11 pm

thomas81 wrote:

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Oh for christs sake.

How the deuce is removing a specification for a spectrum of order in any way helping accuracy of diagnosis?! Makes no Gorram sense!

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01 Dec 2012, 8:14 pm

Rhinox wrote:

thomas81 wrote:

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Oh for christs sake.

How the deuce is removing a specification for a spectrum of order in any way helping accuracy of diagnosis?! Makes no Gorram sense!

I'm more wondering how the deuce an autism diagnosis of any shape or form in any way correlates with mental illness.

ABC just lost any credibility in my eyes.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:17 pm

It just means were all Highly Functioning Autistics.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:17 pm

Rhinox wrote:

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"To give it separate names never made sense to me," Gibson said. "To me, my children all had autism."

Very true. I don't suspect many people with autism will be dropping it themselves, I see nothing wrong with anyone wanting to be specific with their diagnosis.

It isn't something you can just "drop" and adapt to the changes made by a minority of health officials, adamant that their opinions are superior to all.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:30 pm

to be honest, i probably by rights should have been diagnosed with aspergers but my psychologist gave me a high functioning autism diagnosis instead, probably in foresight of this change. That was back in January.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:32 pm

What's DMDD?

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01 Dec 2012, 8:33 pm

MsMarginalized wrote:

Man, what a DIS-SERVICE to all of us diagnosed....now we are just all "Autistic"

So?

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and/or have DMDD.

The site describes that as "abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums".
You need a lot more symptoms than that to be diagnosed with any form of autism.

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Some Moron just waved a wand

Yes, the lengthy review process was equivalent to "just waving a wand".

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& POOF we are all different...

Same people, different label. Unless I'm missing something and the DSM-V revisions are going to turn us all into rabid hyenas or something.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:33 pm

While not a mental illness autism is clearly a neurological disorder. It isn't just difference, it is an illness.

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01 Dec 2012, 8:37 pm

I guess I will just now refer to it as Autism or ASD... my diagnoses was aspergers/ASD.

It does somewhat influence us badly... is it because of the "Ass burgers" political incorrectness?

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01 Dec 2012, 8:44 pm

I'm not sure that I carried my point so well...I was very miffed when I first read that article.

YES, I know before I had Aspergers Disorder which is on the Autism Spectrum. Now they're dropping the Aspergers part. Now, at the age of 46 I can only (by Dr's deffinition) say "I'm Autistic" & can't really say I have this identified problem of Aspergers Disorder (because Aspergers Disorder is no longer "recognized" by 'the powers that be')

edited to add: y'all know that all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are square...to me this whole dropping Aspergers just muddies up the water & is un-focusing the problem for those of us who have Aspergers (I'll probably ALWAYS say that I have Aspergers...ya' know: a rose by any other name & all that jazz.)

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