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> Please leave diagnostics for professionals. > asperger spectrum This is no longer recognized in the DSM-5.

by outworlder 5y ago

wombatpm 5y ago
But it was in DSM-IV. Are all of those people now cured?
- outworlder 5y ago
  No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore? DSM-5 replaced everything with autism spectrum disorder.
  - chevill 5y ago
    And to elaborate on this the explanation I read stated that with DSM-IV you had a bunch of specific disorders with their respective checklists of symptoms which didn't accurately reflect variations between individuals and the overlapping symptoms. (Since its a spectrum). This led to situations where people didn't check enough boxes to be eligible for certain treatments that might benefit them because they were associated with a slightly different diagnosis than the one they had.
  - stcredzero 5y ago
    No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore? The way you put it sounded like the thing didn't even exist. Whereas, it was just a name change. If that wasn't deliberately misleading, it might as well have been. Someone who isn't familiar with these issues might have looked things up briefly, then concluded that someone was lying. In my view, intellectual honesty demands taking care not to create such misleading situations, even at the cost of strongly "scoring a point." Especially at that cost!
brailsafe 5y ago
Asperger's is just the old name for it, it was split into autism and social communication disorder.
fsloth 5y ago
I don't know what that is. The world does not rotate (always) around US medical standards. Asperger/autism - it's still a spectrum that's affected with neurological function. So we are talking about neurologically distinct persons who may have been called in some instances as "being on the asperger spectrum". What is the current accepted terminology for this neurological profile? (I have close family diagnozed by neurologists 'on this spectrum' - and it is very much a specific neurological profile whatever we may call it).

> Please leave diagnostics for professionals. > asperger spectrum This is no longer recognized in the DSM-5.

wombatpm 5y ago

But it was in DSM-IV. Are all of those people now cured?

outworlder 5y ago
No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore? DSM-5 replaced everything with autism spectrum disorder.
- chevill 5y ago
  And to elaborate on this the explanation I read stated that with DSM-IV you had a bunch of specific disorders with their respective checklists of symptoms which didn't accurately reflect variations between individuals and the overlapping symptoms. (Since its a spectrum). This led to situations where people didn't check enough boxes to be eligible for certain treatments that might benefit them because they were associated with a slightly different diagnosis than the one they had.
- stcredzero 5y ago
  No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore? The way you put it sounded like the thing didn't even exist. Whereas, it was just a name change. If that wasn't deliberately misleading, it might as well have been. Someone who isn't familiar with these issues might have looked things up briefly, then concluded that someone was lying. In my view, intellectual honesty demands taking care not to create such misleading situations, even at the cost of strongly "scoring a point." Especially at that cost!

brailsafe 5y ago

Asperger's is just the old name for it, it was split into autism and social communication disorder.

fsloth 5y ago

I don't know what that is. The world does not rotate (always) around US medical standards. Asperger/autism - it's still a spectrum that's affected with neurological function. So we are talking about neurologically distinct persons who may have been called in some instances as "being on the asperger spectrum". What is the current accepted terminology for this neurological profile? (I have close family diagnozed by neurologists 'on this spectrum' - and it is very much a specific neurological profile whatever we may call it).