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AardvarkGoodSwimmer
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21 Jan 2012, 1:29 pm

diniesaur wrote:
. . . This brings me to another question--how many of the professionals who designed these criteria have actually spent prolonged time with individual autistic people? And how many of those ones have spent time with autistic adults and teenagers? I don't think professionals who have no experience with us as people should be redesigning the criteria for our diagnoses. . .

Very key. In fact, this might be the most central issue of all.

In fact, I like good respectful descriptive writings like in anthropology and ethnographic writings. That is, before we try to jump to the project of having 'professionals' trying to wrap it all up in a nice, neat 'perfect' theory with a bow on top. I myself tend to prefer messy, real world description.

And as far as helping people, let's take a medium step, see how it works. Another medium step, see how that works, etc, etc. And in that way, get some interplay going between theory and practice.



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21 Jan 2012, 5:24 pm

DaBeef2112 wrote:
I've read that the changes were done because too many kids are being diagnosed with autism. There is also an obesity epidemic so are they going to change that definition to make it seem better?


I've read that too. If that is the criteria, I hope those people wouldn't be in charge of an epidemic. A lot of people would die as the number of victims increased disproportionately to the population! 8O