Is it just my lack of a sense of humour, but was the painful prolonged best man's speech simply characterisation of a contemporary Sherlock Holmes figure, or given the current imputation he is meant to portray autism, a rather inappropriate charicature?
Does anyone still identify with the new Sherlock?
longman said:One pyschiatrist is saying that there are a lot of adults being irresponsibly diagnosed because they have a few eccentricities, which bear no relation to the real condition.
That alone gives cause for concern. By any chance was this an NHS psychiatrist! 
As it would appear there is a deliberate attempt not to diagnose both children and adults with autism by the NHS (to avoid draining services and giving rise to benefits applications), comments such as this would fit.
I think the chances of people being misdiagnosed with autism are extremely slim, all clinicians use the same diagnostic criteria. No ethical clinician would risk the damage to their professional reputation for one.
I think it more boils down to arrogant psychiatrists, with outdated and ridiculous views, believing that if someone can work or get married or do other things that a neurotypical can do, then there is no way they can be autistic. They don't understand masking, or at what cost it is to the person. How they may want to die from anxiety before they leave the house, how they may sit stimming and rocking away from the public eye, how they may panic when their post arrives, how they may meltdown because their day is disrupted.
If anyone wants to know how it is being autistic, like I keep saying, try asking us.
longman said:One pyschiatrist is saying that there are a lot of adults being irresponsibly diagnosed because they have a few eccentricities, which bear no relation to the real condition.
That alone gives cause for concern. By any chance was this an NHS psychiatrist!
As it would appear there is a deliberate attempt not to diagnose both children and adults with autism by the NHS (to avoid draining services and giving rise to benefits applications), comments such as this would fit.
I think the chances of people being misdiagnosed with autism are extremely slim, all clinicians use the same diagnostic criteria. No ethical clinician would risk the damage to their professional reputation for one.
I think it more boils down to arrogant psychiatrists, with outdated and ridiculous views, believing that if someone can work or get married or do other things that a neurotypical can do, then there is no way they can be autistic. They don't understand masking, or at what cost it is to the person. How they may want to die from anxiety before they leave the house, how they may sit stimming and rocking away from the public eye, how they may panic when their post arrives, how they may meltdown because their day is disrupted.
If anyone wants to know how it is being autistic, like I keep saying, try asking us.
