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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ASD is not a disease like cancer.[/quote]

So you are arguing for less specificity with ASD? Just lump 'em into one big group?

Good science demands specificity. I've never heard anyone argue otherwise. The truth is, today we are calling a multitude of things autism. [/quote]

Yeah. At the dev ped the other day for my kid that clearly has issues - many - but clearly not asd, no less problematic probably, and probably no less dehabilitating, I saw several classically autistic kids. They look a certain way have a certain posture and a certain voice and a certain way. It's clearly genetic.[b] I think we are calling degrees of intellectual disability all autism[/b]. Not popular. But it's true. My kid is cognitively low functioning, there's no autism. But we've been forced that way like ten times. It's fruatrating because: expertise, prognosis, specialities. Why does this need to be explained? There's no "it's just cancer." Come on.[/quote]

I think it goes beyond even that. We are calling all developmental differences autism. I see it clearly in the special needs groups we're a part of. [/quote]

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