This is more just a question of curiosity now since it's just ASD now, but it got me curious because when I registered for this forum they asked me to pick one. The doctor who diagnosed me said I would have been labeled Asperger's back in the day because I had no speech delay, but I also don't have a lot of the stereotypes, so I wonder if I could have been labeled PDD-NOS.
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What's the difference between PDD-NOS and Asperger's?
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You can probably look up the DSM IV text and find it there.
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Mostly spelling. At one time, it was a coin flip which one a person might be diagnosed with. Neither term is used in the latest DSM.
I was diagnosed with both. As I have said before, DSM5 has been simplified, deoffensivized, and politically corrected to the point of near uselessness. In my opinion, it is best ignored.
I was diagnosed with PDD-NOS due to the fact I was diagnosed just before DSM-V was released. However, my diagnosis got updated to autism spectrum disorder. It is still what scientists would call "high-functioning autism."
DSM-4 had sub-diagnoses for autism like Asperger's & Autism [meaning Kanner's]. If you presented as autistic, but did not tick off enough boxes in the above, you were given the diagnosis of Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified.
PDD-NOS could occur at any severity level, so it has no DSM-5 equivalent. My ASD3 daughter was originally diagnosed as PDD-NOS.
Asperger's is the closest approximation of ASD1.
By the time I got a diagnosis it was called ASD. Several people say that I have the Aspergers profile and at least one person said that I seemed more like someone with something called Atypical Autism.
My longest-time friend was told he had atypical autism. He definitely doesn't fit Asperger profile.
...I seemed more like someone with something called Atypical Autism.
The colloquial "atypical autism" would be the closest approximation of DSM-4's PDD-NOS.
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