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Most of your comments seem geared towards general autism and some to clinical psychology as a field. I mostly agree with it, but it is not really about this art

Most of your comments seem geared towards general autism and some to clinical psychology as a field. I mostly agree with it, but it is not really about this article. Furthermore, while autism might just be a label and nothing else, we do need to help people who (or who's friends and family) claim to have mental problems. Your comment about people having "various eccentricities" (perhaps unknowingly) downplays this. Realistically, it's quite hard to tell when people are eccentric or when they are in deep psychological turmoil. At this moment, diagnosing someone with autism, for example, is the most popular method we have -- I wanted to say cutting edge, but that's probably wrong. For me it was an interesting article. Since gender is partially a cultural and biological construct I can imagine how gender changes the outer appearance of autism. I wish there would be more research on it compared to what the writer claimed there is. Unfortunately, scientists mostly recruit participants that are easy to find.

dogma1138 11y ago
The article it self is very problematic it's anecdotal at best and was laying it heavy in quite a few areas. The opening paragraph it self is dubious 1 of her doctors lost his license for misconduct (sleeping with patients) the other only seen her for 7 min. This isn't relevant really because if they are incompetent they would be quite well equally incompetent regardless of sex. Then the next line was about her being on medication which negatively affected her (psychiatric medication doses are nutritiously bad I've seen weight gain and utter apathy in both men and women taking anti depressants). And then the article continues with more and more anecdotal evidence. Psychiatry is plagued with miss diagnosis, including many times where actual physical conditions from STD's to poisoning are diagnosed as physiological or psychiatric disorders. This doesn't seem to be an extreme case, clinical psychiatry is probably the least accurate medical science we have and only in fairy recent decades that it started getting backup in terms of actual biology neuroscience especially neurogenetics, real time brain imaging and many other fields are still quite infant compared to many other medical fields like physiological clinical diagnosis and surgery. I can go on and on, but overall i didn't get from the article a) that she isn't an outlier as autism in adults by definition is under diagnosed if it is actually a given born condition and not an accumulated psychological disposition due to her life experience so far (24 years of being probed and medicated could might as well caused at least some of it, it's a shame that early development and child psychology is almost a tabu currently, I have my own theory about that but it's almost conspiratorial in nature) b) that there is a clear case of misdiagnosis of clinical autism in women.

dogma1138 11y ago

The article it self is very problematic it's anecdotal at best and was laying it heavy in quite a few areas. The opening paragraph it self is dubious 1 of her doctors lost his license for misconduct (sleeping with patients) the other only seen her for 7 min. This isn't relevant really because if they are incompetent they would be quite well equally incompetent regardless of sex. Then the next line was about her being on medication which negatively affected her (psychiatric medication doses are nutritiously bad I've seen weight gain and utter apathy in both men and women taking anti depressants). And then the article continues with more and more anecdotal evidence. Psychiatry is plagued with miss diagnosis, including many times where actual physical conditions from STD's to poisoning are diagnosed as physiological or psychiatric disorders. This doesn't seem to be an extreme case, clinical psychiatry is probably the least accurate medical science we have and only in fairy recent decades that it started getting backup in terms of actual biology neuroscience especially neurogenetics, real time brain imaging and many other fields are still quite infant compared to many other medical fields like physiological clinical diagnosis and surgery. I can go on and on, but overall i didn't get from the article a) that she isn't an outlier as autism in adults by definition is under diagnosed if it is actually a given born condition and not an accumulated psychological disposition due to her life experience so far (24 years of being probed and medicated could might as well caused at least some of it, it's a shame that early development and child psychology is almost a tabu currently, I have my own theory about that but it's almost conspiratorial in nature) b) that there is a clear case of misdiagnosis of clinical autism in women.