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This is why I think very highly of the transition in DSM V to diagnosing on spectrums. It's not perfect but it really helps get away from putting people into bu

• lupire 7y ago
  At the expense of putting people on spectrums where two people with the same diagnose have wildly different symptoms and effective treatments, rendering the diagnosis moot. This is a crisis in "autism", where Asperger's and autism are different on such an extreme scale, yet the language, medical literature, and treatment plans and funding are muddling it up to the detriment of all involved, creating a culture war between people who say their mild Asperger's is a personality type not a disorder, and caregivers of people who cannot speak or provide basic self-care for themselves -- because DSM dumps them in the same diagnosis and society loses the language to disambiguate the scenarios.