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Is Autism too inclusive?!

Mads

I caught the tail end of a discussion on the radio last night. It was (I think) regarding Professor Dame Uta Frith.

“The spectrum has gone on being more and more accommodating, and I think now it has come to its collapse,” said Professor Dame Uta Frith (UCL Cognitive Neuroscience) on the widening autism spectrum and the growing challenges in diagnosis.

I haven't got a definitive reference but there are online newspapers that have the story (I just don't want to sign up to them to read the full article).

All thoughts welcome. 

Joey. 

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  • I read the article and found some of Frith's comments disappointing and potentially damaging, much as I fully appreciate that science is still learning about autism. I am also grateful that the lifelong challenges I have faced were eventually diagnosed at age 59. We are a lost generation whose challenges were missed in childhood, after all, and we bore the cost of that in trauma and being misunderstood. 

  • in reply to leveller61

    We are also the ones with the most experience and able to voice that. The worst thing is being young, misunderstood, autistic and not heard. We owe those people a voice. 

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