What was your diagnosis?

[Häxan]

I know we all seem to get some sort of number or label on where we land according to their spectrum charts. I just wonder for those of you who were diagnosed what does the official paperwork say.

Even though my specialist said he considers me "High Functioning" I have been diagnosed with F84.0.



Really these days I am not sure what it even means because I find the diagnose criteria so strange.

 

[SameStars]

Mine said DSM-IV, 299.80, F84.5. Both meaning Asperger disorder.

 

[Häxan]

I am curious about the codes, what they mean and now what is their significance since they took "aspergers" away from the DSM.

I am interested in what is the difference between different diagnoses like for instance high functioning autism and aspergers, and now that they took aspergers away what number does it fall under? Also have they also gotten rid of high functioning as a diagnosis?

 

[granolaturtle]

No. I was diagnosed as HFA. And whether Asperger's is a diagnosis depends on your location. I'm in the USA, so it isn't a potential diagnosis, but across the pond in England it is. Maybe in some other countries HFA was taken away as a potential.

 

[Warmheart]

While the DSM V uses the term Autism Spectrum Disorder (and that's in my paperwork, too), my official diagnosis says "Infantile Autism -- Active."

Which makes me think

and




It makes me feel philosophical


I know I can handle this diagnosis



Knowing my diagnosis will influence my decisions in life



I've thought it over






and I am ready!

 

[Myway]

Mine is Asperger Syndrome, although people just say I am autistic for the sake of things.

 

[Datura]

I have been diagnosed with OCD, Depression with Anxiety, and Adult ADHD inattentive type.
This is all much more descriptive than what I got while I was in school, which was: "At first we thought you were just slow, but then you said something really smart and blew our minds and we gave you a bunch of tests and some of them say you're an idiot and others say you are quite bright. The best we can say is that you have some rare form of dyslexia, maybe? Either way, we think you should be on ritalin." I do, of course, paraphrase.

 

[ancusmitis]

Either way, we think you should be on ritalin.

LOL, that's about half the psychiatrists I went to as a young child.

 

[Lee954]

My diagnosis was simply Asperger's syndrome with a suggestion that I be tested/assessed for dyspraxia and possible visual perception difficulties. I've not had the additional tests suggested, and I'm not pressing for them to be done either.

 

[unsurewhattoname]

Asperger's syndrome - "A diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome is given when a person meets the criteria for the Autistic Spectrum, with impairments in social communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, restricted repetitive interests and impaired imagination and these impairments must have been present since childhood. It also requires an IQ within the normal range or above and no delay in language development." That's on my report.

 

[ImAnAspie]

I was first diagnosed by a psychiatrist back in 2007 whom I was seeing for depression. When he diagnosed me, I didn't even know what Aspergers was.

After a bit of research, I just wrote him off as an idiot until many years later, a completely unrelated psychiatrist whom I was also seeing for depression (and alcoholism) came up with the exact same diagnosis without any prior knowledge of the previous psychiatrist or his diagnosis. Both of them said I had Aspergers. That's when it became rather difficult for me to refute.

When I asked the second psychiatrist for a formal diagnosis, he said, "You've got one!"

I could have paid a fortune to have it in writing but my diagnosis, although not written on paper, is formal.

I'm in Australia.

I asked him about AS being taken out of the DSM and he said that here in Australia, the DSM is only one source they go by. Here in Australia, Asperger's Syndrome is still a legitimate diagnosis and it certainly was when I was first diagnosed back in 2007.

 

[Butterfly88]

I have PDD-NOS. I'm in the USA.

 

[BethC]

I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 2002

 

[Jambo_nick]

HFA/AS my mum was told they were the same thing, just different names.

 

[artfull dodger]

I was diagnosed just prior to the change in the DSM here in the USA, So I have Aspergers and according to my therapist, it can range from mild to severe for me. When I took the AQ test, my high score supprised me. But when I look back on my whole life up to this point, it all makes sense. Mike

 

[clg114]

DSM-IV 229.80, Asperger's Syndrome, in the spring of 2008. I was 62 at the time. I had suspected it for a couple of years, but it felt good to know for sure.

 

[Stevie1903]

I'm in Scotland and was diagnosed in march 2014. Diagnosed as HFA but specialist stated for purpose of looking for advice and further self investigation etc to search under AS.

 

[Progster]

Long term moderate Asperger's Disorder, with high linguistic ability