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littlelily613
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09 Sep 2011, 6:17 pm

Ai_Ling wrote:
Dont people get reevaluated here and there to see how they progress? Im not sure how this goes, I'm probably going in for a reevaluation within the next couple of weeks. I was diagnosed Dec of 2006. So its been almost 5 yrs since Ive been diagnosed. My life has changed very significantly since. Tho much is due to being a young adult and being forced to grow up an extremely rapid rate.


Not as far as I know. I was diagnosed as a child, but she used a test that assessed my early childhood development. Because of the way I was when I was a child (and today too--but I would not have gotten this diagnosis with my current behaviour if I did not qualify as a child!) then I was diagnosed with classic autism. I am pretty sure you do not have to be rediagnosed once you get one.


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10 Sep 2011, 4:35 am

I had a read of the revised criteria and really, it sounds like they've pooled together the similarities between PDD-NOS, Asperger's and Autism together in order to formulate it. So, I think it is highly doubtful that anyone would be losing a diagnosis based on the revised criteria. A lot of the revised criteria is, IMO, actually broad - especially the social impairment aspect.

Personally, I see myself as meeting the criteria, except for one aspect. I'm only unsure whether I would meet that aspect because it requires me to observe my own behaviour, and that's not possible unless I'm prepared to have someone follow me with a camera [and that would be...weird].


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