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I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.

Shek

Interesting article in the New York Times 'I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.' raising important issues about diagnosis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/opinion/i-had-asperger-syndrome-briefly.html?_r=1

Also comments on the next edition of the diagnostic manual, the DSM5, possibly giving a narrower definition of the autism spectrum.

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    Those who reached adulthood before the condition of Asperger's was recognized had no alternative but to cope and/or adapt, regardless of whether they were middle or working-class, since they were not eligible for either support or disability benefits.

    Addionally, people who are now being diagnosed in their 60s or 70s grew up in a time when treatment for 'mental illness' was pretty basic and people were unwilling to voluntarily admit to problems of this nature - better to cover-up as best as one could.

     

     

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    Those who reached adulthood before the condition of Asperger's was recognized had no alternative but to cope and/or adapt, regardless of whether they were middle or working-class, since they were not eligible for either support or disability benefits.

    Addionally, people who are now being diagnosed in their 60s or 70s grew up in a time when treatment for 'mental illness' was pretty basic and people were unwilling to voluntarily admit to problems of this nature - better to cover-up as best as one could.

     

     

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