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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am seeing the Facebook memes about girls with autism, and I ticked all the boxes when I was younger.

But I am not autistic. It's ludicrous to say I am.

If you are a functional adult, you aren’t either. The DSM specifically says that the condition must impact daily living.

The categories are a mess and written in a way that people are DXed with ASD when they actually have a genetic condition like Downs or Cornelia de Lange syndrome.

Maybe these categories will prove fruitful down the road but there is still a lot of work to do.

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“Functional adult” isn’t the test.  Significantly impaired in a basic function is.  You can be a functional adult with no friends, for instance.  Or a functional adult who regularly changes jobs.  Or a functional adult who is unable to go on vacation due to restricted eating patterns.  That’s all significant impairment.

But I continue to think that the diagnostic criteria are a mess and this study doesn’t shed that much light on it.[/quote]

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I am certain many people think my young kid is not really autistic, but every trained therapist she has ever worked with has noticed she is not NT and suspected autism. Just because you as a layperson can't see the impairment, doesn't mean the person doesn't have one. Other people's opinions really don't matter at all. If it bothers you that my kid is called autistic and she doesn't fit with your stereotypes of what autism is, I do not care. If they choose to call what my kid is something else besides autism, that is completely fine with me. Whatever happens, we will continue providing supports that we are lucky to be able to pay for, supports that make it possible to have friends and participate in the classroom. And that's something we would never have known she needed indefinitely without the diagnosis.[/quote]

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