There’s a misunderstanding that diagnosis of autism is finding a cause for some traits. The reality of the DSM is that autism literally is a list of traits - a shorthand renaming of the list. There’s no implication that it’s a single condition, or a discrete condition, or has any known cause, or explains anything. https://intellectualizing.net/2013/12/17/book-rethinking-aut...
Naming or categorizing isn’t the same as explaining!
Anyway kind of a pedantic point I guess but maybe autism explains the need to make those :-)
I do think there’s value to finding kindred spirits and community, which categories and names can help with.
There’s a misunderstanding that diagnosis of autism is finding a cause for some traits. The reality of the DSM is that autism literally is a list of traits - a shorthand renaming of the list. There’s no implication that it’s a single condition, or a discrete condition, or has any known cause, or explains anything. https://intellectualizing.net/2013/12/17/book-rethinking-aut...
Naming or categorizing isn’t the same as explaining!
Anyway kind of a pedantic point I guess but maybe autism explains the need to make those :-)
I do think there’s value to finding kindred spirits and community, which categories and names can help with.