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'm adding further to this discussion which I hope no one minds as I find it really interesting and I think about autism a lot. 

    How I see it is that autism is defined as a set of observable behaviours. But in reality everything goes on behind the scenes and outward behaviour is often but not always a manifestation of what's going on underneath.  So I'm being very basic here but it might be that we have some shared systems within a spectrum of how our brains process things but a variety of ways this can be displayed and experienced.

  • It all began with Francis Galton’s idea with eugenics and the “average man”. It produced what I call the pathology paradigm where pathology has been corrupted by basing it on “normal” instead of pathology itself. I basically see they designed an artificial model to compare humans to, and anyone who doesn’t fit that manmade model are seen as disordered, like was homosexuality ever a pathological disorder? No, it was socially constructed to be preached as a disorder even though it wasn’t.

    When we look at “autism traits” individually we can see it is actually just general human behaviour as nonautistic people display the same behaviours, this begs the question why are they only seen as deficits when done by autistic people? Another question I ask when debating is why aren’t we trying to “cure” the difficulties of so-called normal people? I see they have trimmed so many behaviours off what I call “The Human-Ability Spectrum” and defined them as deficits. Just about every hidden disability which is explained in behavioural criteria is actually nothing but a discriminatory social construction.

    Ableism has become so hegemonic in our societies that people don’t even realise when they’re been ableist.

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  • It all began with Francis Galton’s idea with eugenics and the “average man”. It produced what I call the pathology paradigm where pathology has been corrupted by basing it on “normal” instead of pathology itself. I basically see they designed an artificial model to compare humans to, and anyone who doesn’t fit that manmade model are seen as disordered, like was homosexuality ever a pathological disorder? No, it was socially constructed to be preached as a disorder even though it wasn’t.

    When we look at “autism traits” individually we can see it is actually just general human behaviour as nonautistic people display the same behaviours, this begs the question why are they only seen as deficits when done by autistic people? Another question I ask when debating is why aren’t we trying to “cure” the difficulties of so-called normal people? I see they have trimmed so many behaviours off what I call “The Human-Ability Spectrum” and defined them as deficits. Just about every hidden disability which is explained in behavioural criteria is actually nothing but a discriminatory social construction.

    Ableism has become so hegemonic in our societies that people don’t even realise when they’re been ableist.

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