anyone here change thier diagnoses from Aspergers to SCD

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...at school the teachers and pupils tried to kill me because they thought I was a witch as I used to melt down into near death comas when I was frightened of them - and come back to life when they left me for dead...

Does anyone here have the feeling the experts are taking people that fit the long standing autism standard, people who are on the spectrum but due to the nature of the spectrum and autism are more borderline/high functioning cases, and just making up new catgories to describe them, taking them off the official definition of who's on the spectrum?

Does anyone here have the feeling the experts are taking people that fit the long standing autism standard, people who are on the spectrum but due to the nature of the spectrum and autism are more borderline/high functioning cases, and just making up new catgories to describe them, taking them off the official definition of who's on the spectrum?

as most of us know the New DSM has changed the autism criteria so know if you dont have repetitive behaviours or sensory issues , you are not on the spectrum and you will be classified to have SCD (Social Communication Disorder)

This study is interesting in that respect:

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/869/art%253A10.1007%252FBF01531586.pdf?auth66=1391725000_6e88e597d4bf0ca5b481c1c1ea4a8e95&ext=.pdf

They studied compared six low-functioning autistic kids, three who had no speech at all (mute) and three who were echolalic. (The echolalic kids also had better overall functioning than the mute kids.) All six kids engaged in a lot of stimming.

They tried to teach each child a simple task, to hand the experimenter a particular shape and not the other one (eg hand him the square, not the circle). The same shape was rewarded each time. The researchers first tried to teach the kids the task without making any effort to stop them stimming. If they didn't learn it, then they tried again, this time stopping the kid whenever they caught the kid stimming.

Among the echolalic kids, all of them learned the task without the experimenter suppressing stimming. Two kids reduced stimming of their own accord, and the third refrained from stimming only when the experimenter was giving a command.

Among the mute kids, however, none of them learned the task in the first phase. However, when the experimenter stopped them from stimming, they all learned the task. This suggests they may learn more poorly when they're stimming at the same time.

Of course, we don't know this for sure. Since the 'stimming suppressed' condition took place after the 'no suppression' condition, it could just be that the mute kids took longer to learn the task and the stimming manipulation made no difference. However, they didn't show any improvement in scores over time in the 'no suppression' condition, so it seems likely that they did need stimming to be suppressed to learn the task.

This suggests that stimming impairs functioning for some kids, but not others.

i guess, it would, but many NTs do it as well,

That is not true according to what I've read. Sensory issues are only one of the four symptom groups listed in part B of the diagnostic criteria, and only two of those four (any two) is required for diagnosis.

You missed something. ZB mentioned "two", and right in what you quoted spoke of repetitive behaviours as well.

I just remembered- I rock forward and back a lot of the time when listening to those songs again and again. Is that stimming?