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People want pills and because you can't just get pills for symptoms cheaply the industry has responded to demand and diagnosed everyone. It's like a cross betw
by potato3732842 11mo ago
People want pills and because you can't just get pills for symptoms cheaply the industry has responded to demand and diagnosed everyone.
It's like a cross between everyone at a bank being a VP and your doctor being a bro and prescribing you viagra for blood pressure so insurance picks up the tab.
- oliyoung 11mo agoASD isn't treatable with medication. Its impacts can, but Autism itself is largely pharmalogically untreatable
- potato3732842 11mo agoTreat and "mask symptoms so I can hold a job at my full potential" are different things. And even if ASD isn't a whole bunch of other things are.
- watwut 11mo agoThat sounds like a good thing, no? People able to hold jobs at their full potential is good for them, good for their families and good for people who would had to be their helpers/caregivers otherwise.
- oliyoung 11mo agoIt is! It's why we advocate for a broader umbrella of dx for ASD. There are kids who are are independant and almost functionally neurotypical, they probably don't even need "helpers", but still need assistance that they wouldn't get if they didn't get a dx under the "old" definitions
- oliyoung 11mo agoThat's what I mean by "impacts of" :)