Is Autism too inclusive?!

Mads 16 days ago

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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Wordsmith 15 days ago

Andrew Hugill (another late diagnosed autist) has a readable rebuttal of Frith's article on his Autistic Professor blog: https://www.autisticprofessor.uk/2026/03/the-autism-spectrum-has-not-collapsed.html
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Acquiesce 11 days ago in reply to Wordsmith

Interesting that he seems to describe the same type of spectrum alternative that I did, albeit from my brewing interest: anyone looking at a better way of presenting the spectrum should look at hop flavour profile diagrams - it's basically wheel or whatever split into different subtypes - you could do that really easily for ASD and all Nuerodiversities pretty easily I think, with a gauging of how this impacts/presents in an individual.
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Acquiesce 11 days ago in reply to Wordsmith

Interesting that he seems to describe the same type of spectrum alternative that I did, albeit from my brewing interest: anyone looking at a better way of presenting the spectrum should look at hop flavour profile diagrams - it's basically wheel or whatever split into different subtypes - you could do that really easily for ASD and all Nuerodiversities pretty easily I think, with a gauging of how this impacts/presents in an individual.
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