New ICD-11 manual mirrors U.S. autism criteria

[Mary Anne]

The ICD-11 (Published now available as of May, 2018) also removes Aspergers as does the DSM-5 in the United States.
New global diagnostic manual mirrors U.S. autism criteria

Summary:

“The criteria are part of a highly anticipated update to the “International Classification of Diseases,” a diagnostic manual produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). The latest draft of the manual, dubbed ICD-11, collapses autism, Asperger syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) into a single diagnosis of ‘autism spectrum disorder.’”

 

[Southern Discomfort]

This was known already. Previous drafts collapsed it too. Personally I don't care either way. I'm just going to continue calling it the way I want to at the given moment. Makes no difference to me.

 

[Mary Anne]

This was known already. Previous drafts collapsed it too. Personally I don't care either way. I'm just going to continue calling it the way I want to at the given moment. Makes no difference to me.

A lot of people posting in these forums do not know that the just-published new European diagnostic also mirrors the DSM 5, so I felt prompted to start this thread. Also, it changes the way in which people are diagnosed, and some who already have a diagnosis, might not fit into the current categories.

What do you call it, Southern Comfort? Just curious, give the recent controversy on the newly disclosed history of Dr. Asperger. Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and “race hygiene†in Nazi-era Vienna | Molecular Autism | Full Text

 

[Progster]

Also, it changes the way in which people are diagnosed, and some who already have a diagnosis, might not fit into the current categories

I don't think that it will affect those already diagnosed - they will keep whatever diagnosis they were given - but it will certainly affect people diagnosed in the future.

It won't affect me because I was diagnosed with the DSM IV.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

A lot of people posting in these forums do not know that the just-published new European diagnostic also mirrors the DSM 5, so I felt prompted to start this thread. Also, it changes the way in which people are diagnosed, and some who already have a diagnosis, might not fit into the current categories.

What do you call it, Southern Comfort? Just curious, give the recent controversy on the newly disclosed history of Dr. Asperger. Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and “race hygiene†in Nazi-era Vienna | Molecular Autism | Full Text

I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter of Hans Asperger. Yes, the report is nothing short of damning but there's a lot of things that came out of the Nazi era we still use and call by the same name. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz? Bit different to a clinical diagnosis I know. I have no respect for the guy any more. And he is dead who cares any more about him?

Autism, Asperger's. I don't care. It changes like the wind for me.

 

[clg114]

I was diagnosed in 2008 with the DSM-4. The diagnosis was Asperger's Syndrome, so as far as I am concerned, that is what I have. It really does not make any difference because I do not tell people that I am autistic.

I do not even care that the DSM-5 discontinued the Asperger's name. What I do not like is the fact that criteria in the DSM-5 appears to have political and economical influences. It seems like getting a diagnosis with the new criteria is harder than it was with the old. It seems to me that a DSM should be more concerned with the welfare of the patient than who pays for what.

 

[Nervous Rex]

It really doesn't matter to me whether they call it autism, ASD, Aspergers, or Quasidynamicneuroencephalarythmic Mauveness. It's what I live with.

Perhaps there will be some advantage in merging autism and Aspergers research, and in making autism/Aspergers resources available to more people.