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31 Aug 2007, 10:33 pm

I apologize in advance if there is already a post about this that i haven't found yet. I wondering if there has been any posts or threads created for PDD not otherwise specificed? Does anybody know of any?
I tried looking it up on wikipedia but it doesn't say much. is there any other links were one could read more information about it?

Ive been researching asperger's syndrome for two months now. I show lots of the traits which is mention in another post. I relate to a lot of you on many levels, bullying, being taken advantage of etc, hardly any friends, horrible love life. however i do not have a narrow intense interest. I believe that i more or less fall under the PDD-NOS category.

Does anybody else fall under that category?


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31 Aug 2007, 11:02 pm

dalhousie12 wrote:
I apologize in advance if there is already a post about this that i haven't found yet. I wondering if there has been any posts or threads created for PDD not otherwise specificed? Does anybody know of any?
I tried looking it up on wikipedia but it doesn't say much. is there any other links were one could read more information about it?

Ive been researching asperger's syndrome for two months now. I show lots of the traits which is mention in another post. I relate to a lot of you on many levels, bullying, being taken advantage of etc, hardly any friends, horrible love life. however i do not have a narrow intense interest. I believe that i more or less fall under the PDD-NOS category.

Does anybody else fall under that category?


A lot of people talk about PDD-NOS like it is a real diagnosis. It often isn't. It is almost like a doctors saying you have an ideopathic pain. Such a diagnosis means you have a pain for some unknown reason. Likewise, PDD-NOS means a PDD that isn't defined. It could be HFA,LFA,AS, or something worse or better. BTW most AS people apparently don't have what they consider a narrow interest. I guess narrow is in the eye of the beholder.



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31 Aug 2007, 11:59 pm

2ukenkerl wrote:
BTW most AS people apparently don't have what they consider a narrow interest. I guess narrow is in the eye of the beholder.

It's kind of demeaning to be told that the way you are interested in something that you really like is "narrow", so i can see why... but it seems almost everyone has a few "special interests", due to the more positive connotation attached to it.



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01 Sep 2007, 1:30 am

psychotic wrote:
2ukenkerl wrote:
BTW most AS people apparently don't have what they consider a narrow interest. I guess narrow is in the eye of the beholder.

It's kind of demeaning to be told that the way you are interested in something that you really like is "narrow", so i can see why... but it seems almost everyone has a few "special interests", due to the more positive connotation attached to it.


Well, I have two interests that apparently a number of aspies do. One is built on the principles of directing a little item. The name of it? ELECTRONICS! Another is based on the idea of switches and programatic movement of them. The name? COMPUTERS! So I guess it could be called narrow. All about a little item you can't see. :lol:

But, seriously, does that sound narrow to you? You could say Mass Storage, CPU, Memory, OS, Language, etc... I could probably give you a dozen or so distinct types, rattle off actual examples, and benefits of each.



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01 Sep 2007, 2:45 am

I think I fall under the PDD-NOS catagory. In feel I don't even have AS because I am not like those aspies I read about in books. I am more normal than them and I can do better with change and it's easier for me to learn how to cope with stuff than it is for lot of aspies.



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01 Sep 2007, 7:21 am

likedcalico wrote:
I think I fall under the PDD-NOS catagory. In feel I don't even have AS because I am not like those aspies I read about in books. I am more normal than them and I can do better with change and it's easier for me to learn how to cope with stuff than it is for lot of aspies.

likedcalico,did have earlier intervention though?
that might be why say are higher functioning that other aspergans,it would not mean do not have AS but that have had help early enough to lessen the severity of AS.



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01 Sep 2007, 8:23 am

Narrow interests generally mean that you focus/fixate on one subject and all others barely enter your mind (with varying degrees of severity obviously). I probably have it as good as anyone else with autistic disorder does.

2ukenkerl,

Remember dude, LFA/HFA aren't real diagnoses.

Anyway, here's PDD-NOS:

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This category should be used when there is a severe and pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction associated with impairment in either verbal or nonverbal communication skills or with the presence of stereotyped behavior, interests, and activities, but the criteria are not met for a specific Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, or Avoidant Personality Disorder. For example, this category includes "atypical autism" - presentations that do not meet the criteria for Autistic Disorder because of late age onset, atypical symptomatology, or subthreshold symptomatology, or all of these.



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01 Sep 2007, 9:54 am

Danielismyname wrote:
Narrow interests generally mean that you focus/fixate on one subject and all others barely enter your mind (with varying degrees of severity obviously). I probably have it as good as anyone else with autistic disorder does.

2ukenkerl,

Remember dude, LFA/HFA aren't real diagnoses.


They aren't specified as separate categories, and they DO come close to being arbitrary, but they ARE trying to further define an actual diagnosis. The idea being that everyone that is LFA or HFA has kanners type autism, and it is just called autism. Who knows, they might break it down further. After all, autism has a stigma because it was earlier reserved for those that were LFA. The HOPE, at least, is that people that more closely fit AS will be diagnosed as AS. PDD-NOS is everything outside, and cases where the doctor hasn't determined, or doesn't want to take the time to determine, if the person fits in the other areas.



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01 Sep 2007, 11:00 am

Ah yes I remember that thread....

richie wrote:
PDD-NOS Can best be described as "lopsided" or "haphazard" development,
in my case I started talking almost two years later than most kids, yet I was reading
at least three years beyond most kids. My motor skills were (and still are) not very well
developed.


PDD-NOS is not as specific as Asperger or Kanner types of Autism, it may be a combination of
ADD, AS, and/or HFA... I wish doctors would make up their minds about which antic to put in their
semantics...