Fenn wrote:
I looked at this very carefully because my son was diagnosed just after the DSM-V came out and I looked carefully at both the DSM-IV and the DSM-V - plus we waited until the DSM-V came out so we wouldn't have to be re-evaluated.
DS21 was diagnosed ADHD and ASD - which wouldn't have been possible under the DSM-IV (unless we found a real maverick).
Maybe my evaluator was a maverick because I was sort of diagnosed with both Aspergers and ADHD. I was evaluated just before the DSM 5 came out. Maybe it was because I had been evaluated several times before for other conditions and had been evaluated for and diagnosed with ADHD, but my official evaluation listed both ADHD and Aspergers among other diagnoses. It said something to the effect of "her ADHD diagnosis is best understood as subsumed under the diagnosis of Asperger Disorder." Then in the list of diagnoses it said Asperger Disorder and then indented underneath it says Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder primarily inattentive subtype.
How common is it to need to be reevaluated after a diagnosis under the DSM IV? I've never been reevaluated. My psychiatrist now just writes autism spectrum disorder instead of Aspergers.
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