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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. I think we are calling degrees of intellectual disability all autism. 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 genetics is a part of it and for some kids, it is the reason why.  I also don't think there is one reason for it and it can be a birth injury, drug/alcohol exposure, prenatal environmental, etc.  We just don't know and they are looking at a set of criteria vs. actual tests.  We did do genetic testing and it didn't come up with anything but genetic testing is so new right now and while it is good for some things, it cannot diagnose everything.

I also think you are absolutely right that we now call intellectual disabilities autism when those should be separate (or co-existing).  My husband and I watched a documentary on autism and many of the kids seemed to fit in that category but it was called autism.
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