Criticism of Broad Autism Phenotype

Sounds like diagnosis envy to me, NT's who are jealous and feeling left out. People don't realise that just having one or two things that are on the spectrum dosen't mean that the spectrum is wrong or that they are misdiagnosed. A spectrum condition and there are many not just ASC, but things like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue etc are called a spectrum as there are a list of signs and symptoms that can go to make a diagnosis, people will often have half a dozen or more, but not the whole list, unlike an illness like measles where everybody has the same symptoms.

Sounds like diagnosis envy to me, NT's who are jealous and feeling left out. People don't realise that just having one or two things that are on the spectrum dosen't mean that the spectrum is wrong or that they are misdiagnosed. A spectrum condition and there are many not just ASC, but things like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue etc are called a spectrum as there are a list of signs and symptoms that can go to make a diagnosis, people will often have half a dozen or more, but not the whole list, unlike an illness like measles where everybody has the same symptoms.

Sorry, this previous reply was supposed to be to fire monkey. I’m not sure, but is it a bit too much about the label? 

Here I have a question (not to you, but to the professionals) what is actually autism then? If I understand properly- Syndrom is a set of symptoms, which should occur together maybe with different strength, but I wouldn’t say that someone is autistic only because they feel stressed about changing their routine. Maybe I’m wrong but this is how I understand it. I think that in the future there will be no more diagnoses like we have today and the process will be much easier and faster - also with help of algorithms there will be short assessment- to recognize who is neurotypical or neurodivergent with specified set of traits. Teachers and caters will get the child’s traits specified and they will be trained how to support and work with both NT and ND children. It’s my vision of future of all mental health conditions. I think that it makes more sense than issuing multiple diagnoses and as we can see it’s far from perfect - many people have no access support or even to doctors, many people fall in the cracks, because of bias for example, or get multiple times misdiagnosed, overmedicated it’s all stressful and traumatising. And expensive. 

My mom has traits that are autistic, the biggest difference between me and her is that she manages stress and sensory input much better than me, likes her routine but changes don’t cause her stress, has few long term friends and doesn’t need anyone else. She said she is happy, she always felt different, as a child she was interested with airplanes and didn’t care about peers giving her weird looks when she infodumped them about airplanes. She said she feelt superior to them, although she felt different. She has never understood me feeling inferior and not fully grown up, she has always told me that I’m exaggerating and overreacting. I think me and my mom could be some sort of example of one person having autistic traits but not being really affected by them and other person - having their impact on life.