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Re:Autism research on single neurons suggests signaling prob... by pasiaj on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:47PM (#19949901)
The DSM-III, published in 1980, established autism as its own separate diagnosis and described it as a “pervasive developmental disorder” distinct from schizophrenia.
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Re:Autism research on single neurons suggests signaling prob... by soup10 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @06:35PM (#19950103)
The DSM is largely a tool for billing insurance, it has so many different "disorders" listed that everyone falls into at least one category or another at some point in their lives.
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Re:Autism research on single neurons suggests signaling prob... by thelasthuman on Sunday May 19, 2019 @03:58AM (#19952084)
Wasn't homosexuality still considered a disease in the DSM-III?
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Re:Autism research on single neurons suggests signaling prob... by mftrhu on Sunday May 19, 2019 @05:10AM (#19952311)
Almost. It was declassified as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 [1] (and by the American Psychological Association in 1975 [2]), and the DSM-III has been the first edition to not include homosexuality.

It still contained ego-dystonic homosexuality (TL;DR: "I don't want to be gay") - which was opposed by the APA in 1987 [3] - until 1988, with the publication of the DSM-III-R.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/psychiatrists-in...

[2]: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/discrimination

[3]: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/diagnoses-homosexuality-arc...

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