How will diagnostic criteria change in 2013?

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I understand the plan to make all the various aspects of autism fit under one classification will take place in 2013 (rather than 2010). My question is if Asperger's and HFA are already considered virtually identical and if PDD-NOS is regarded as autism but not completely fulfilling the criteria for AS/HFA, how will the diagnostic criteria change? If it doesn't change it seems it would knock PDD/NOS off the spectrum. What do you think?

I think this is the latest update on PDDs:

DSM-V proposed changes

Thanks

What would they call it if you have bad social impairment as a child, but less so as an adult (I am told nowadays I have social impairment, but it's not quite disabling)

See where those X's are, that's probably where I fall if Im on the spectrum, lol. Actually I don't know if I could be considered sub-clinical or mild by those standards... I can't really tell how socially deficient I am since I'm not very social. I just know it was bad enough as a kid that they had me in counseling for social skills and stuff.

Yes, it seems any way you look at it it's eventually going to come down to the diagnostician's qualitative judgment. I don't think the difference between impaired and just limited is always clearly defined. I know I'm not doing what I ought to be able to do, but I don't know why.

I'm still working on it