NEW CATEGORY IN DSM5!Social communication disorder

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i was just looking on the dsm 5 updates and saw as of early this month there is another new category ! !! Social communication disorder !
here is there criteria!!

A. Social Communication Disorder (SCD) is an impairment of pragmatics and is diagnosed based on difficulty in the social uses of verbal and nonverbal communication in naturalistic contexts, which affects the development of social relationships and discourse comprehension and cannot be explained by low abilities in the domains of word structure and grammar or general cognitive ability.
B. The low social communication abilities result in functional limitations in effective communication, social participation, academic achievement, or occupational performance, alone or in any combination.
C. Rule out Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Autism Spectrum Disorder by definition encompasses pragmatic communication problems, but also includes restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities as part of the autism spectrum. Therefore, ASD needs to be ruled out for SCD to be diagnosed.
D. Symptoms must be present in early childhood (but may not become fully manifest until social demands exceed limited capacities).


here is the link
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=489

by the way they describe it in the rationale section it sounds as if tis is the equivilant to non-verbal learning disability

LOL Asperger's syndrome 2.0

Sorry guys.

This just sounds like a way to compensate for PDD-NOS. I'm sure the people who are worried about not fulfilling the new criteria will be stuck with this label; or it will be one of those dusty labels that are little-heard-of and deleted next time around.

This makes no sense, theres already a diagnosis for social deficit.

Oh, for f**k's sake...

Then there is WDKWTFII Syndrome.

(We Don't Know What The f**k It Is)

As far as the science of psychology goes, this is a good thing--now there's a way to categorize people with simple social deficits but not the widespread cognitive differences associated with autism. But in everyday life... this is not going to be very helpful. This group of people--the ones who only have problems socially--need a lot of the same things full-blown autistics need. Unless this disorder is listed as being associated with autism, they may have trouble fitting into the right categories in order to get those things.

Its says, "impairment of pragmatics." What does that mean?

In general this is where alot of PDD-NOS and NVLD will probably fall. Truth be told you can just throw out Autism Spectrum Disorder's diagnosis and use one and two. It is more clearly written, and more at the heart of the real issues involved to be honest.