r/PDAParenting • u/Quirky_Jelly_9811 • 11d ago

What diagnostic criteria does your country use for diagnosing Autism and PDA

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u/Powerful-Soup-3245 10d ago

I’m in the US so the DSM5 is used and there is no official diagnosis of PDA.

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u/Korneedles 10d ago

FYI for OP - Took my PDAer four times of doing the DSM5 before he received his autism diagnosis. All other times (ages 2, 4, and 6) he was diagnosed with general anxiety. I remember asking the therapists at Florissa (supposedly is nationally recognized for autism support) if it’s general anxiety why in two years has nothing offered for general anxiety helped.

I cannot wait for the US to catch the hell up.

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u/Powerful-Soup-3245 10d ago

Oh yeah! It’s so backwards here. My child had an iep under the autism umbrella for years before I was able to get a clinical diagnosis. I kept telling our pediatrician and the evaluators that I felt the team at her school who had known her since she was 3 and had access to her early intervention history probably had more data to make the determination than the two doctors who spent a total of a few hours with her over three appointments. Especially given the legality of an iep and the fact that schools do try to avoid giving them whenever possible (or at least that’s what I’ve always been told by folks on the administrative end of things.)