What's the difference between PDD-NOS and Asperger's?

[TikvaBall]

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.

 

[Jumpinbare]

You can probably look up the DSM IV text and find it there.

 

[FayetheAspie]

What Is PDD and Asperger’s Disorder? | Childbrain.com

 

[Au Naturel]

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.

 

[Shamar]

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.

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.

 

[Joshua the Writer]

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."

 

[Crossbreed]

What's the difference between PDD-NOS and Asperger's?

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.

 

[FayetheAspie]

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.

 

[Jumpinbare]

My longest-time friend was told he had atypical autism. He definitely doesn't fit Asperger profile.

 

[Crossbreed]

...I seemed more like someone with something called Atypical Autism.

My longest-time friend was told he had atypical autism.

The colloquial "atypical autism" would be the closest approximation of DSM-4's PDD-NOS.