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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read the DSM criteria - it requires pretty significant funcational impairments across settings.

If someone in your family has ASD, you know it and it doesn't take long before anyone who interacts with them can tell something is different about them too.

TikTok autism (that so many seem to have now) is a whole different ballpark and isn't a clinical diagnosis.

Kids and adults have weaknesses, imperfections, vulnerabilities, unique characteristics, etc. That is part of being human. Those should not be psychopathologized. A diagnosis means you have substantial clinical symptoms that cause functional impairment across settings and that  you require support / intervention to function. [/quote]

This is a 12:00 private poster.

My point is that the DSM (and clinicians) might be viewing variations from the mean as impairments when, in the past, they were viewed as personality characteristics and quirks. In other words, the impairment bar is set really low. In the alternative, clinicians are being generous in defining impairment to get insurance coverage for kids who might need support but don't have ASD.[/quote]

What makes you think what was done in the past was better? Who, specifically, is suffering more in the current model and in what specific ways does the current model harm them? What are your observations based off of? Many autistic people report their diagnoses they received later in life were literally lifesaving. Are you questioning those diagnoses of people you have never personally me[/quote]

I didn't say it was better in the past. I'm wondering about the current DSM and how it is applied.

I think everyone should be diagnosed accurately. If a kid had a diabetes diagnosis, and it turned out that the kid didn't need treatment (because the standard was so low) or was misdiagnosed (because the clinician applied the standard too broadly), the parent would presumably want to know that.

I'm not talking about anyone in particular. I'm not asserting that autism diagnoses are fake.

You assume that the DSM is accurate and all diagnoses are correct, and that I am contending that ASD diagnoses are fake. I'm questioning whether too many people are swept in. I fully concede that the DSM correctly diagnoses many people and that the diagnoses have helped them, both in finding support and understanding who they are.

You seem really defensive. Like, because you are your kid was diagnosed with ASD, everyone with an ASD diagnosis must have ASD. I'm not advocating for taking people's diagnoses and accommodations away. Sheesh.[/quote]

Bad comparison as with diabetiess there are blood tests - both through a lab, and at home or a device that can tell you exactly what the numbers were.  With ASD, there is no blood test or genetic test (maybe in the future though).[/quote]

It is a behavioral condition, so no, there will never be a blood test. [/quote]

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