Aspergers diagnosis to be eliminated?

Wow! The American Psychiatric Association, APA, has drafted a proposal to change the way Autistic Spectrum Disorder is classified; eliminating diagnosis of "Aspergers" and instead using an overall diagnostic category of "Autistic Spectrum Disorder" with levels of severity - mild, moderate, severe. Aspergers would fall under the mild category. PDD-NOS would fall under the new diagnostic category Autism Spectrum Disorder.

I'm not sure how I feel about that or if it even matters to me that they are changing it...hmm... I overall don't like the use of "mild/moderate/severe" as it either makes you feel like everything you are struggling with really isn't a big deal (if considered mild) or on the other end how would it make a parent feel to have to indicate their child's diagnosis is "severe autism"?

Perhaps I am reading too much into it. However, I do feel it just shows how little is still known about Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Maybe this is a step into the right direction though...to stop trying to diagnose and fit someone into the bubble of "aspergers" or "ASD" or "PDD-NOS" and realize that it is all one huge umbrella and not everyone can cleanly fit into one label.

If you would like to read about this: APA press release