tangerine12 wrote:
Where did you get the "There is no evidence that such traits distinguish anything clinically meaningful whatsoever" from? Big Pharma? Autism Speaks?
Not from any of the above, nor from a reality tv show contestant either. From reading actual research, as opposed to taking everything I see or hear in the pop-media seriously. Might I suggest that next time you are inclined to jump on a bandwagon that you bother to actually do some research first so you do not make ridiculous inferences like those above. Autism Speaks has no interest in undermining its scare tactics by including Aspergers Syndrome with Autistic Disorder in the minds of the public. It's a lot easier to scare people with the lowest functioning Autistics while ignoring those who can actually speak for themselves than it is to get people freaked about verbal Autistics. I have no idea what you imagine big Pharma's interest in Autism would be given that there is no pharmaceutical intervention that cures or is specifically for the treatment of either condition, and given whether the conditions are retained as separate entities or not makes no difference to big Pharma and its ability to flog medicines/drugs.
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Many "autistic" children with developmental delay get intensive interventions, more so than those without developmental delay.
And.....your point?
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With adults, Asperger's is used as a severity scale is already in wide practice, in addition to Heather's explanation see below,
Only by people who are not adhering to the current DSM. The publication of the next iteration of the DSM cannot magically cause people who are not adhering to it, to suddenly obey with complete and unerring compliance. Anyone currently ignoring the DSM criteria so that they use Aspergers Syndrome to demarcate severity can continue to not adhere to the DSM after the next iteration is published, so what difference does it make?
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Hormone oxytocin may help Asperger's patients
A study links the hormone, which promotes mother-infant bonding and cooperation, to smoother social learning skills in people with the autism spectrum disorder.
February 15, 2010|By Melissa Healy
People with Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism,
I am aware that there is a lot of misinformation about that is harmful to those with Autism, with people with the Kanner diagnosis who are just as high functioning as many with AS being discriminated against by those who assume if they have a Kanner diagnosis this says something about the severity of their condition, and with people with Asperger suffering from the assumption that they must be higher functioning than anyone with a kanner diagnosis.
In short, using AS as a severity designator is not compliant with the current DSM so the change in the next iteration will make no difference to those who do this as if they do not adhere to the current DSM nothing will prevent them from continuing to deviate from it in the future.
01 Mar 2010, 1:09 am
