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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 was thinking that perhaps if they'd renamed the Asperger's diagnosis in 2013 rather than folding it into an expanded ASD then it might answer this problem, but I think that's naive. I suspect the culture warriors would be arguing that Asperger's (or whatever replaced it) was too inclusive and was just an excuse for not trying hard enough to fit in/ pathologising difference

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  • I was thinking that perhaps if they'd renamed the Asperger's diagnosis in 2013 rather than folding it into an expanded ASD then it might answer this problem, but I think that's naive. I suspect the culture warriors would be arguing that Asperger's (or whatever replaced it) was too inclusive and was just an excuse for not trying hard enough to fit in/ pathologising difference

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