Does autism even exist?

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It would help.....but it wouldn't get rid of the autism if the person is autistic. The symptoms might ease.

Maybe it does exist. Hopefully...

On a related note, NEVER let yourselves be forced into medication without learning every risk & NEVER consume prescription drugs at the suggestion of someone lacking in patience or placing any sort of demands on you. I've been there and I wouldn't wish that fight on any living being big or small. I'm exceedingly proud to say I still have my liver & kidneys intact to show for winning that fight. Even moreso to know I still have the ability to adapt within my mind.

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Yes autism is really. Look at the videos about kids with autism and see how much they are afflicted with it. Also look at severely autistic kids. I am sure there are kids out there who are/were misdiagnosed and they are actually just quirky or nerdy or geeky or gifted and it was just the environment they were in that made them seem aspie but I would hope they are the minority.

Yes it does exist and it's like a spanner in the works of my already meager existence.

If Autistics are only intellengent the whole idea of a spectrum is a mistake what do you propose to call people who have many autistic traits but who are not intellengent "ret*d", "feeble minded" , "moron" etc.

You do understand that originally Autistics were thought of only as severely affected with little or no intellegence and it took decades of work to get partial acceptence that autistics can be intellegent. This is still not fully understood. What you propose to do would undo all this good work and have the opposite effect of what you intend. You would cause more of what is going on now which is non autistics saying since you guys are geniuses figure it our yourselves stop whining and your cure is to have someone beat some sense into you. You would cause the people formally labeled autistic to be more depressed/suicidal which is how people respond when they find out people they thought were allies abandon them.

Can't you have ASD and still like beer?

Do we have to create an Aspergian beer-drinking website?

(I am not in the mood to get into an argument over whether Autism exists).

Possibly it doesn't exist.
The traits exist, but autism as a coherent entity may not.

I've been around autism a good amount of my life....and my conclusion is that (especially within people with Kanner-type autism), there is a definite syndrome going on, with characteristic symptoms which, while not exactly objective, come close to being objective.

I think you're asking a subjective question.. Whether or not the label is meaningless since it's expanded so much is reprehensible and may hurt others by creating a fear monger..

I don't think the label exists per se, it's just a list of multiple symptoms or behaviors that classify it as such.. They did the same thing when the label ADHD was invented..

I don't believe there's such thing as a diverse brain like they suggest. Do Autistics interpret things differently or have a harder time? Maybe. People forget lots of symptoms are due to free radical damages.