Thanks I'm thoroughly familiar with the DSM criteria, the ICD criteria, and the research literature. > It literally lays out a path that can generate a non ove

Thanks I'm thoroughly familiar with the DSM criteria, the ICD criteria, and the research literature. > It literally lays out a path that can generate a non overlapping diagnosis. It does not. If you believe there are exist two autistic people who have no overlapping symptoms please present an example. > The moment there is a biological underpinning to something like ASD it gets interesting because what do you do with all the folks with a diagnosis who DONT fit that label. Compare this to, "The moment there is a biological underpinning to something like cancer it gets interesting because what do you do with all the folks with a diagnosis who DONT fit that label." To which the answer is "that's a red herring, the current understanding of cancer doesn't require all cancers share the same biological origins, so why should finding one marker call that into question?" Or "The moment you locate the code line with a buffer overflow it gets interesting because some programs that seem like they have a buffer overflow don't have that line of code."