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It also seems that certain people who should know better- pediatricians and such- use the term "PDD", as if autism were not itself a PDD. It is almost as if it's used to cushion the "blow" of an autism diagnosis.

By the time my son was dxed, I was just so frantic about what was going on, the last thing on my mind was avoiding some supposed stigma that made a PDD dx more attractive than the more accurate autism.