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The problem really is that many or most positive autism diagnoses do not come with medically testable symptoms, much like depression or anxiety. And it really h
by lr4444lr 5y ago
The problem really is that many or most positive autism diagnoses do not come with medically testable symptoms, much like depression or anxiety. And it really hurts the truly intractable, very clinically observable cases to allow for this definition creep IMHO, putting a threshold of points on some psych survey, no matter how well normalized, and simply medicalizing people. I am not even convinced your typical aspie programmer with the high vocabulary who's bad with girls even has the same underlying medical problem as the mute kid who rocks in the corner in fetal position and didn't learn to use the potty until he was 6. Some of these kids for example are improved dramatically when they get on immunomodulating drugs. On others it has no effect. The way some of the "advocates" speak with such cocksure certainty about what is and isn't only hurts the larger cause.
- guerrilla 5y ago> do not come with medically testable symptoms Not really true where I am. You have to go through all kinds of tests and be tested for other things (to make sure you're not those.) I suspect it's the same everywhere.
- watwut 5y agoThe other issue with Sheldon is that Sheldon is actually abusive guy and his friends are actually enablers. With best friend being mix of enabler and victim.
- netizen-936824 5y agoWhere are you located and what, precisely, do these medical tests entail? What biochemical mechanisms do they look at for accurate diagnoses? From my observation of psychological testing and diagnosis on the research side in the US, its a shit show. Most of it is self reporting and questionnaires which don't actually tell us anything about underlying mechanisms. Its just a bunch of symptom check boxes.