The boy whose brain could unlock autism

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Wikipedia is not a valid source for anything, except as a start for research... especially definitions... that is what the dictionary is for.

Except that they don't.
Disease:
1. a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
2. any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.


Please, in the definitions (which are the two that apply to this discussion), site
a) where a disease has to be communicable?
b) how an environmental factor making it worse is a contradiction?
c) how our reaction to environmental stimulus should require that the individual in question should BE in the DSM?


Please share the definition you have been using...

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I happen to dislike the term as well... unfortunately... My flavor of autism is such that I am VERY literal and believe that the burden of communication falls upon the one communicating the ideas... Since my flavor is rather severely emotionally disconnected Asperger's... I have no choice but to use the dictionary definitions without the emotional connotations and stigma that are often attached to words...

Citation: Please cut and paste this definition you are using... Also... one point does not negate the other... it only reinforces my statement...

I do not know how to do the cut and paste thing. I'm almost as computer illiterate as a clam. . Like I said. It is the definition I read in Wikipedia. Until I read it, I thought a disease was mostly biological. Like a poison, a bug, or a system getting attacked, and run down somehow.

Is getting older a disease? Sounds like it?

One reason why I do not like the definition of disease for me, is because my mentality, and skills go up. needing support or not, things do get better. Unless someone like a sociopath intervenes. That may complicate things to the point of disease, so I guess it's circumstantial.

Once again, I am sorry for being me. Maybe I'm just really confusing. Language is not my strongpoint. I am a very visual thinker. What I see in my head, may not be interpreted correctly. Too many crazies. I may be one of them. .

There are qualitive issues many of us have, that make it difficult for me to believe it is a disease. Wheather we need help, support, have difficulties, or whatever.

different countries have different understandings of words, disease is regulary used to describe ASD in america for example but woud be frowned upon in the UK.

am not offended to the word but dont believe it fits,a disease of the brain woud usualy imply that someone had a normal functioning brain but then becomes diseased,whereas ASD is strongly believed to be pre natal resulting from genetics,it was recognised [although not always understood] by parents of many autists as young babies including self.
this is just own understanding of it and the word disease.

No need to apologize... we are all just... us... the thing is... wikipedia is not a valid source of any authoritative information... Anyone can edit it... And anyone does... like most things on the internet, that is not a good thing.

The medical and dictionary definitions are the valid ones...

No. It wouldn't. Sickle cell anemia... is a disease that one has from birth. It does not manifest later in life, the body does not change to bring it forth.

You are adding things to the word that are not there by the definition. This is what I have been saying for years... there is a stigma with the word... and most of the people I talk to about it, give reasons for hating it (most of which are implications and emotional connotations) that do not exist...

The word disease does not, and has never had a component of change.

22q11.2 deletion syndrome, Angelman syndrome, Canavan disease, Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, Cri du chat, Cystic fibrosis, Haemophilia... All of these are examples of diseases that start in the womb, from genetics... some get worse (being degenerative) others do not... but none of them were absent and then present.