Autism Being over diagnosed?

I won’t be surprised if that’s true! I was lucky I didn’t have to wait as long with psych uk and I had a great connecting with the psychiatrist. As for nhs, well I’m having to pay for specific tablets now as they won’t give me them for free

It's possible that theres over diagnosis, particularly from the worried well and parents who's children don't do as expected, as was said above. I rememer when dyslexia was first recognised widely, there were lots of for want of a better term middle class parents insisting that their child was dyslexic, either because they weren't reaching the readin goals of the parents, or were just not particularly academic.

I do think there's a bit of what I term as "diagnostic envy", where somebody has a diagnosis of something, gets appropriate resoursing and others want it too because to them its "not fair". I think that many of these adults claiming things are not fair, need to grow up and get a grip and maybe therapy!

I woder how any complaints of over diagnosis are aimed at the number of adults who's children are diagnosed realising they have the same traits and seeking diagnosis and help for themselves?

Are NT's realising that they're not such a majority as they once thought? Are they horrified that their collegues, friends, partners, children, family member aren't "normal" and can't cope with what this means?

The title and the explanatory text under the video seem to mention a number of different issues. I will need to watch it to see what it actually says.

It is reasonable to ask the question if there is over diagnosis. Any medical condition should be scrutinised to make sure it is being applied correctly and consistently. For children it may be more consistent than for adults, I don't know. 

More broadly there have been claims of an issue of the worried well seeing things online and thinking they have an issue. But I don't know if this outweighs the benefits of greater awareness helping others.

I think this is the point of the video, that parents with awkward children are claiming autism when it is something else, or minor, or a parenting issue. Children's development can be delayed by just giving them an iPad and leaving them, rather than interacting with them. Claiming autism is then using up resources.

Dumping everything in one bucket would not help anyone, but perhaps it moves the problem.

If the criteria are correctly applied then there has to be impairments, so help is needed.

Anyway, as said at he start I need to watch it. Unless there is some evidence though, it is just opinion.

Who knows - perhaps the government paid him to do it to try to put people off requesting a diagnosis, to keep NHS costs down?