Re:Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
by TeaDrunk on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:37PM
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I think it's difficult with autism because autism applies to people who cannot feed themselves as well as people who would be defined by others as 'quirky'. There's no differentiation, so it'd be like calling all men disabled because some men are disabled. Of course, calling all men completely healthy isn't right either. There's no granularity.
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Re:Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
by throw998 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:40PM
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These days it's also a lot of pretty much random people who were sent to the school psychologist for some reason or other, plus a bunch of people who went to see a GP for things like a runny nose and were hoodwinked into a couple of psychiatric diagnoses they'll never get rid of, plus a lot of depressive narcissists who cling to their unfounded diagnosis to feel better about themselves, and the doctors play along because it's the easiest way to deal with them.
I suspect >90% of so called ASD cases have little real clinical basis these days and the entire disorder looks very fishy.