What is the difference between borderline Autism and Atypical Autism? Do people with these find it more difficult to get a diagnosis?
What is the difference between borderline Autism and Atypical Autism? Do people with these find it more difficult to get a diagnosis?
Psychologists and psychiatrists are either 'lumpers' or 'splitters' and sometimes one or other is in vogue. At the moment the lumpers are in the ascendant, which is why the current trend is to diagnose everyone with ASD/ASC. If the splitters were on the up we would be back in the realms of Asperger's, high functioning autism etc. etc. Of course, they would come up with new names!
Thank you.
Language is the difference:)
And the inability for society to recognise that the values it's currently hypnotised under are in conflict with parts of a basic human design. Like everything else, instead of looking at the problem, they're trying to address a symptom of the actual problem which isn't Autism but homogenisation of majority thinking: group-think. Suddenly perfectly normal human traits that wouldve been necessary to keep a tribe alive (hyper-sensory, hyper focus and objective reasoning) are out of sync with what's deemed 'normal'. A quick read through Erich Fromm starting with the Revolution of Hope will make this glaringly obvious.