A giant step forward in understanding autism

Re:A giant step forward in understanding autism by Der_Einzige on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:51AM (#34837035)

Giving people who have a syndrome which causes poor social skills and frequently leaves it's victims bullied the name "assburgers" syndrome was about as unfortunate as it got for these people. As someone who had a diagnosis for Asperger's, I'm extremely happy to see the name changed.

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Re:A giant step forward in understanding autism by mrguyorama on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:15PM (#34839003)

Also, the theory of taking autism as a single-variate "how functioning are you" spectrum and labeling the low side of that spectrum "Asbergers" was unscientific nonsense anyway, not backed up by research into autism.

There are a multitude of spectrums of symptoms, support needs, issues, and attributes that are all lumped together. The idea of taking that huge parameter space and mapping it to only two classes was nonsense. There is an important shift in psychology to move beyond really dumb and old classifications into actual evidence based treatment.

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