Why there is a great amount of nonsense on ASD

By its very nature spectral disorder is impossible to categorize because it is subjective to such wide variation.  A diagnosis of ASD is not chiselled in stone as the final word. Such a diagnosis has been determined through an analysis based on a criterion of fundamental symptoms characterising non-specific generality of ASD. Yet many view their diagnosis as their "bible" for justification of complexed actions that may involve and interplay with other complexed mental/physiological issues they may have.  Autism is and will remain a proper mobius puzzle until the human brain's workings can be entirely understood. But yet we often allow ourselves to be misled by false "priests" of this topic who sound as though they know what they are saying as truths. It's a non-specific spectral disorder--lets not forget that and lets dispense with their gobbledygook on this topic. I do however disagree with the term "Disorder" while the question is often asked "what is normal". People with ASD are a minority but why should that be classed a disorder? Is it any more a disorder to be part of an ethnic minority? 

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  • I think there's the idea that anything which deviates from the "norm" - whatever that is anyway - is classified as a disorder. It's interesting how our condition is defined by what allistic people have determined as a disorder. And also like you say "priests" on this topic (Baron-Cohen springs to mind as an example). I also don't see a lot of cross over discussion about autisyic/allistic experience for example on autistic youtube channels. If we did this could possibly put into context a bit more for both parties (ie non autistic people also may have similar problems but with a different cause or outcome).

    By its very nature spectral disorder is impossible to categorize because it is subjective to such wide variation

    Where does autism begin and "non autism" end? I think the ideal would be that human behaviour is seen as spectrum as a whole with autism somewhere amongst it. I think that due to the social and communication differences, autism (whether known to others/self or not)is often seen as "other" (ie not one of the pack). The double bind I feel is that, we shouldn't need labels but then I don't know how people are supposed to get help for their difficulties if we don't have that label. Overshadowing can often happen.I think a lot of the additional problems (such as mental health related which then links to physical health) we have are not because of autism per se but because of our environment and the double empathy problem. And other difficulties/conditions etc may become intertwined.

    I think as humans we like to have things in neat little boxes in our heads. Personally, I need answers for things a lot. Due to difficulties over the years and poor mental health, ive really needed to understand myself and WHY things are the way they are. But I understand this in a different way to what is labelled as deficits and behaviour related and more of a way my world is processed. We all have different experiences.  

    Autism is and will remain a proper mobius puzzle until the human brain's workings can be entirely understood.

    I agree on this one however I don't think we will ever get to the bottom of it. It will be interesting to see how definitions etc change over time in conjunction with other conditions like adhd/dyslexia etc.

  • I've just realised that my second paragraph doesn't entirely correlate to the point you made that I quoted but I'm going to leave it in because I still think relevant. I'd like to add in relation,  I think you might be saying if we don't know "what is normal" for non autistic people, by comparison we also can't say what is "normal" for autistic people. There is such variance in both camps.

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  • I've just realised that my second paragraph doesn't entirely correlate to the point you made that I quoted but I'm going to leave it in because I still think relevant. I'd like to add in relation,  I think you might be saying if we don't know "what is normal" for non autistic people, by comparison we also can't say what is "normal" for autistic people. There is such variance in both camps.

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