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I disagreed about the part that the DSM 5 is to blame. If you were diagnosed with one thing but decide to tell people you're diagnosed with something else, tha
by Aurornis 11mo ago
I disagreed about the part that the DSM 5 is to blame.
If you were diagnosed with one thing but decide to tell people you're diagnosed with something else, that difference doesn't appear to come from the DSM.
- gizmo686 11mo agoAsbergers is not a thing anymore. It has been folded into autism, which is now a broader diagnosis than it once was. I'm sure the powers that be had a reason to combine them; and I am no where near qualified to have an opinion on if it was good idea or not. But expanding the definition of autism to include milder forms was 100% a choice that was made. The fact that the public perception subsequently shifted to view autism as less severely disease seems to me to likely be causally related.