The whole notion of autism as a spectrum having one name should be scrapped. They took a whole bunch of possible extreme characteristics and lumped them into one diagnosis just to have a label.
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Replying to @JASutherlandBks
I've heard this argument before and reject the hard-line version of it. Basically, all of the taxonomy branch of psychology is "noting that there is a lot of variance in humans and trying to cluster individual data points into groups". 99% of it has no chemical etc tests >>>
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Replying to @MorlockP @JASutherlandBks
So at one extreme we say "everyone is a human" (1 cluster), at the other extreme we say "no two people are the same - we can't speak about 'depression' we can only speak of 'your situation'" Taxonomies are useful because they express commonalities that suggest common treatments
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Replying to @MorlockP @JASutherlandBks
All good taxonomies are in flux - especially at early stages like this (the taxonomy of living creatures is in much less flux these days bc DNA analysis - and I can imagine 200 years form now when our science of psychology is a 1000 times better that there will be less flux)
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Replying to @MorlockP @JASutherlandBks
so I do not find autism / asperger's spectrum to be a priori false / offensive / wrong. It's one stab at a thing. The DEEP truth is that probably autism is 3 or 4 distinct things, Aspergers is likewise, some of first and second are prob on a spectrum together, others aren't
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Replying to @MorlockP
The problem I see is that once it had a label, people started making assumptions and assuming the label meant one thing. The drive to better understand the individual became less.
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Replying to @JASutherlandBks
Yep. And I guess my argument is that errors are necessary / inevitable, so while I'd like to see fewer errors of smaller magnitude (who wouldn't!), I don't know of any process that can reliably do this. Special pleading of the form "well THIS is wrong and is bad" is valid but >
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Replying to @MorlockP
Oh, I don't have a solution, because people are people. I merely frustration. :)
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Replying to @MorlockP
I think we'll eventually find that there are a few related genes that mix and match for sensory, processing, and intelligence extremes.
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