BBC In Depth: the ongoing battle to define autism

These words of UF's are reassuring I think for those already diagnosed:

"It would be a terrible thing to take away a diagnosis retrospectively. It's the future I'm concerned with, making diagnostic process more precise - targeting very different individual needs rather than a label."

RachelO said:

So Uta Frith wants those who are late diagnosed to lose their diagnosis.

I believe not (see above).

These words of UF's are reassuring I think for those already diagnosed:

"It would be a terrible thing to take away a diagnosis retrospectively. It's the future I'm concerned with, making diagnostic process more precise - targeting very different individual needs rather than a label."

RachelO said:

So Uta Frith wants those who are late diagnosed to lose their diagnosis.

I believe not (see above).

But then she said in that Telegraph interview that it was absurd to call Chris Packham autistic because he could communicate so well! In my view, publicly questioning someone’s diagnosis is also ‘a terrible thing’.

Thank you B for posting this.