Melissa Neff
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first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
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or a mood disorder, but my understanding is that these folks are
Always under the autism spectrum in terms of being not neurotypical.
So they're they're very they're neurodiverse.
But kind of leading back to your first question.
They're often not recognized, or they're misdiagnosed, or maybe they don't meet the cutoff for traditional.
level one autism, which is what we used to call Asperger's.
Now now we talk about
Diagnoses in a level system in terms of levels of impairment.
with you know so sort of level one being Asperger's and and so there's no place in the current D SM
That recognizes a PDA profile.
But
If you are looking at individuals
On the basis of let's say they come in for an evaluation.
And you're looking at the specific characteristics of what's going on with them.
Oftentimes they don't quite meet the criteria for Asperger's.
Or they do, but there's something about them that is not typical of what you would see with somebody that is diagnosed on the spectrum, but it feels more like they're on the spectrum than they're not.
Does that make sense?
It
That's a a really good question.
Um, I'll try to answer as concisely as I can 'cause I think there's a lot of pieces in there.
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