Feb 9, 2017 01:26 AM
(Feb 7, 2017 04:54 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]When I was young (paleolithic times) autism was a tremendously debilitating major psychosis that typically meant an almost total inability to live an independent life.
But over the last couple of decades or so, it's been expanded into a 'autism spectrum disorder'. Today anyone who is shy, solitary and a bit withdrawn can be diagnosed as mildly autistic. I'm hugely skeptical about that and don't think that burdening these people with the stigma of mental illness does anyone any good.
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