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Originally Posted by jimi...
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?
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I have done a lot of projects and writing on pervasive developmental disorders.
There are some differences between HFA and Aspergers, but only if the people diagnosed are diagnosed with consistent and like systems.
One of the biggest things I did was a literature review [almost fifty articles, some of which were actually literature reviews], which assessed development and behavioral, emotional, and neurocognitive presentation of PDDNOS, HFA and Asperger's.
When you account for and only deal with equal diagnostic processes, differences become evident.
But then everyone would actually have to develop more valid and reliable diagnostic procedures and OMG CAN'T HAVE THAT.
Also, the DSM will probably be irrelevant in fifteen-twenty years [I mean as a whole, not just this edition] if the RDoC [Research Domain Criteria- NIMH] ends up being as successful and practical as it could be.
And it will likely eventually end up way more legitimately useful and informative in use than the DSM ever really was.