The odd thing is that in many cases they will just ship over the aspies to the new diagnosis whether they fit or not, because most think it is way to much effort to have them retested.

So they plan to start over with those who are not yet diagnosed, meaning someone might be grandfathered into the new DX while someone with more issues might be denied a diagnosis.

The really odd thing is that those with atypical autism will have no place at all in this. When you have a severity scale where you have to match several issues equally, even those with just a vague atypy will also be affected. This assumes you are equally affected on every aspect of autism and that is not what I see in real life.

Now DSM has just two groups and I would probably score mild in both. But when I look at my problem areas I'm deeply affected in areas where people with much worse social skills do better than me.

The thinking behind taking away Asperger's was this; We cannot really see a difference between AS and HFA. Therefore we cannot make AS into its own thing, there are not enough evidence AS and HFA are different things. The obvious solution to this is... bring HFA into AS. If they are the same.... yea why not? But then they go.. they are not the same so we cannot. And I think, hey you just said they were the same?

Man.

Also it was confusing that the more severe form of autism was called autism. It's not especially smart to have it set up that way. It has been referred to as Kanner autism. So why not make it simple and use AS for high functioning autism and Kanner syndrome for low functioning autism? But nope....

I do like that the main name is autism spectrum and not just autism. That's where they did right. The rest.. hmm...