The sheer amount of damage the DSM-IV caused to my communities with a single decision, specifically that ADHD and autism should be mutually exclusive diagnoses, is astonishing. I'm glad the DSM-V fixed their mistake but it's probably going to be at least a full generation before we have any idea which symptoms belong with which neurotype.
If you were diagnosed with either of these before 2013, statistically you were probably misdiagnosed as not having the other, since the comorbidity rate is extremely high.
I feel like I've ranted about this here before but couldn't find it in my tags, so
