8:40am May 28, 2014

➸ http://youneedacat.tumblr.com/post/87038238765/theflightofanintrovert-what-makes-me-mad-is

eightyprovinces:

theflightofanintrovert:

What makes me mad is that I’m 16 and I have been diagnosed with Aspergers recently. I’m not mad that I’ve been diagnosed, I’m actually quite relieved but that fact I have known that I’ve had it since I was 12 and nothing’s ever happened about it, I’ve spoke to…

This is still true today. I know of children who fit Autistic criteria to a T who are officially diagnosed PDD-NOS. The justification is as Aspergers was it is just another part of the spectrum.

What I find to be odd is that ~20 years ago doctors would even know what PDD-NOS was given that it only came into being in 1993 when the DSM-IV came into play.

I was diagnosed in 1995.  And my doctor only gave -NOS diagnoses in general, for fear of labeling people.  So it was less familiarity with PDDNOS, than it was familiarity with -NOS in general as an all-purpose way to avoid “labels”.  I was also diagnosed with Developmental Disorder NOS and some others.  I remember he also referred to PDDNOS as atypical autism, which was another word that had been floating around.  He knew I wasn’t that atypical, though.  (I also got dissociative disorder NOS and psychotic disorder NOS, IIRC.)

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