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The definition of autism has been so expanded as to make it a worthless diagnosis. My cousin was diagnosed with it in the 80s so I’m familiar. Every time I see the 1 in 124 stat on commercials I roll my eyes, knowing that too many people are going to believe it.
Autism exists, and it used to have definite symptoms. Now, any child—typically a boy—who has odd behaviors is automatically considered autistic regardless of the symptoms.
Autism today is a diagnosis in search of a symptom.
Personally, I’m sorry that they did that (although I suppose it is appropriate). Unfortunately it makes everyone think that all autistic children are really Asbergers and promotes unrealistic hopes for them. Furthermore, the parents of some Asberger’s children assume that all other autistic children — those more profoundly affected — could achieve the same accomplishments if only their parents and teachers tried harder.
Almost as bad as Crohn's disease.
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Oh gooody, now even more people can pretend to have autism. What will we do when everybody has it? Probably invent new categories all over again.
When the net includes such a wide range, ie,,atuism spectrum, it becomes essentially useless. (No matter what the rock stars say)
What a name for a syndrome. Sounds like something you could order in a gay restaurant. A neighbor boy was just diagnosed with that syndrome. He kicked a dent in my new garage door a couple of years ago.
I have Asperger’s, and usually I just tell people that I am mildly autistic if they wonder why I am so weird at times.
Please, people. There are a lot of us here with children who have one or another form of autism. Let’s not pooh pooh the diagnosis.
What you from the outside might see as just a “boy who’s a little odd” is actually probably a guy with some specific disorder that can be helped as best as possible to have the best life as possible. Even kids with Asperger’s benefit from getting a diagnosis and learning to organize their lives appropriately.
If you are one of those old-timers wondering why there weren’t all these kids with autism back in your day, remember that the environment was different back then. We don’t know what causes autism to spring up (possibly from a genetic tendency): could it be all the plastics in every aspect or our environment? Could it be all the vaccines given to NEWBORNS - around 10 before the child is even 6 months old (with all the adjuvants, media, diseases, and preservatives in the vaccines)? We don’t know.
But autism is real.
And I certainly can tell that Asperger’s is a mild form thereof, so I reluctantly have to agree with the APA for once.
I have Aspergers, and I only found that out recently after my son was diagnosed with it.
I always had some form of “different” learning abilities that always stumped my teachers and parents. many thought it was a hearing problem, they tried to drug me when I was a teen and as I grew up I was never able to interact socially.
Only on the internet do I have pure freedom of speech and a more easily way to communicate.
Its a blessing and a curse, I was always the smart one but shied away from being propelled by others to be a leader.
There’s a big controversy over that lady who invented the way to keep cattle calm while they are being led to the slaughterhouse, Temple Whatshername. Some say she is autistic, others say she is just an eccentric fraud capatilizing on a disorder. That’s the problems you have when a net is cast too wide.
It’s a stupid decision on the part of the DSM. It’s like folding in nearsightedness, farsightedness, single eye blindness, colorblindness, night blindness et al into the label of “Blind” or “vision impaired”. A nearsighted person isn’t “blind”, but rather, simply nearsighted and needs to adjust their vision, much like how people with AS need to adjust their social settings. I’ve learned never to go to bars, clubs or anything of the sort and to try to live alone or with other people with AS who can understand me.
A lot of people with Autism just have a touch of the disorder and others are barely stopping themselves from drooling. A good example would be my personal life. In any lab, I’m usually the quickest person once I get to know what I’m doing and how to do it, provided it’s explained to me in a black and white, formula filled way and not because I’m just “told” to do something. That’s how I learned how to fix a bicycle, fix a computer and to A person with classic autism wouldn’t be able to do either.
This is going to get reworked soon because other spectrum disorders have certain terms for certian ends of the spectrum. A good example is the schizophrenia spectrum with Schizoid PD, Schizotypical PD and Schizophrenia. It’s not all Schizophrenia.
I probably see it as this, all under the blanket of “Autism”. They can’t fold in Autism without folding in Schizophrenia (Which, IMHO, will be the next big thing to explain why Johnny is a bit odd).
PDD: A lack of ability to pick up on nonverbal communication with no significant intellectual delay.
AS: Same as above, except it includes significant lack of eye contact, ritual thinking and little to no intellectual delay, but social skill delay. May show savantlike abilities in a few narrow subjects.
Kanner’s Syndrome: Profound intellectual delay as well as social and communication delay.
They will revise this.
Good for you for coming out o’ the closet. Embrace the spectrum, Raider! ;)
Obviously, there are a few here who don’t buy into it; maybe they know far better than I do. I mean, I’ve only spent my entire professional career in the field of special education. Never mind that I work with kiddos with autism, PDD, and Asperger’s every day of the week. What do I know?