Asperger's Syndrome, PDD-NOS & DSM-V ???

I'm guessing that Petrossa is going to know the answer to this but I'm going to ask everyone just in case: Who knows what will happen to a pre-existing PDD-NOS diagnosis when the DSM-V comes out? My neuropsychologist said I'd "just be labeled as 'spectrum;'" does that mean ASD, HFA? She did actually use the term HFA at one point, but I was so stunned by the diagnosis and confused by much of what she said that I'm not really sure I fully understood her.

Is Asperger's going to be labeled as Autism as well?

DSM-V is going to put anything that remotely resembles autism together in the ASD. Autism Spectrum Disorder.

So we all will be somewhere in the spectrum, regardless if one actually has autism in any form or not. Just having symptoms is enough. 1 step forward, they finally recognize that mental issues don't come in neat packages, 20 steps backward since they just throw everything together in a lump making any kind of scientific proof impossible.

Masterstroke of the vested interest group of psychiatry. Their hegemony, status quo, remains unassailable by making it impossible to find a common biological ground that unifies a spectrum.

1-0 for the old guard. Job security guaranteed. Better still now anyone can fit in any spectrum more or less. So everyone on earth now has a disorder.

Katsjing!!!

So their finally looking at the variations that is humanity?

Color me skeptic but:

They were forced to admit there is a distinct genetic influence. Which bites if your source of revenue is based on it being environmental.

The first implies things can be 'cured' by genetic manipulation. Not something a psychiatrist wants to hear since they usually haven't got a clue about that.

The latter is way more to their liking because that implies it can only be treated by ages of psychotherapy with medicinal support.

My gf takes med's that need supervising by law. So she has to go to the shrink once a month where the 'therapy' consists of some chatting about shopping, the weather etc. For her real issues the shrink she can't do nothing, just pop pills.

That is getting paid 75$ for 20 minutes friendly chatting, every month for the rest of my gf's life. Multiplied by as many as she can cram in a day and her second house is well and truly paid for in short time by essentially doing absolutely nothing productive.

I'd take that job and i hate chatting.


So i wouldn't count on this getting anywhere near resolved soon.