Re:Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
by tokai on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:33PM
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The positive attributes are not interesting or relevant in a psychiatric sense. This is from a research paper not popular journalism on autism.
Re:Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
by throwaway2245 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:34PM
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The fact that this research paper is classifying all such attributes as negative without justification is inappropriate. It's not scientific - it's not the science that this paper is doing.
Re:Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:01PM
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> Saying only 'impairment' implies that all attributes associated with autism are negative
The ones that are diagnostic (except those that are about ruling out other diagnoses) are. If we understood the mechanism enough to identify anything other than observed dysfunction, that might be different.
And, yes, like virtually every mental disease, the negative attributes are defined in reference to the concrete social context in which the individual exists, and could equally be viewed as problems with society. That's a problem for a different domain than the medical though.
Saying only 'impairment' implies that all attributes associated with autism are negative compared to some mythical baseline, and creates a circular definition which stigmatises autistic people.