The names induce stigma anyway. The majority of the population is ignorant to the reality of mental illness.
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@nfy, So, whatās the point of changing the name?
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I donāt think there is one, except to make more money for the publishers of the dsm.
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Preachinā to the choir here. In the case of autism going to āspectrumā hurt Aspies as we now get lumped in with the low end. More stigma. Hard to make things better, but quite easy to make them worse.
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Idk for 50 years it has been played as the mother of all mental illnesses and mass murderers and every thing else but the kitchen sink. Hollywood has made trillions on it
Maybe if they change the name they will all get confused lmao 
But All jokes aside thereās not a good name for any mental illness after Hollywood gets done with.
I remember well when bipolar was manic depression, Even Jimmy Hendrix got on that band wagon with his hit called āmanic depressionā
I donāt think in my lifetime I will see mental illness to have the right perspective of what it actually is no matter what the diagnosis is
I hear constantly that itās the cancer of all mental illness so I guess that makes sociopaths and pychopaths a common cold.
I guess in the end it doesnāt matter what they call it the stigma is the same.
Donāt forget the biscuit.
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Youāre at the very high end.Most Aspieās arenāt . If we need to do away with lumping low functioning autistics and very high end Aspies together ,should we then have a separate name for very high functioning people like you ?
Personally I think this is BS. Why should we take the word of ONE person. Of course psychosis exists on a spectrum, as does schizophrenia. Thatās why there USED to be types of schizophrenia. Just like autism and every other psychological disorder. HIV used to be a terminal diagnosis too. But with medication it can be managed quiet well. Same with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is no longer hopeless. We can live successful and productive lifes on medication. I understand there is stigma behind the name. But if we just change the name to something else, the new name will just gain stigma too. There will always be stupid people who stigmatize schizophrenia and other diseases (even physical diseases like AIDS). The word āretardā is like this too. It means the same as mentally challenged, but āsounds betterā. Big deal. Getting all politically correct and changing what we call something just because of a few idiots wonāt change the fact we have a serious mental disability. We donāt need to get rid of the label. We need to get rid of idiots.
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Most Aspies are high-functioning. If you were low-functioning you were autistic. They never should have put the one group in with the other.
I was seeing you as being very high functioning as opposed to just high functioning.
I scored 3 for social communication with the ADOS (autism level) and 5 for social interaction( 6 and above is autism level). I certainly donāt think Iām low functioning, but I am not that sure Iām high functioning either.