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What's the difference? Would you prefer "condition"?
What's the difference? Would you prefer "condition"?
The difference is that autism cannot be eliminated via psychiatric methods. It's a neurological condition.
Nor can schizophrenia be eliminated via psychiatric methods.
I think many aspects of a mind cannot be eliminated by psychiatric methods, yet most we would simply call personality.
Developmental disorder is more widely used, and more correct.