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Children with autism must show difficulties with social communication and at least two of four types of repetitive and restricted behavior, according to the latest edition of the autism diagnostic manual, the DSM-5. These behaviors — repetitive movements, insistence on sameness, restricted interests and sensory sensitivities — emerge early in toddlerhood and are among the strongest predictors of autism.
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The analysis unveiled a network of interactions between the behaviors, suggesting that they work together to produce the restricted and repetitive behaviors seen in people with autism. However, none of the five behaviors clusters with any of the others, suggesting that they are too different to be combined as the DSM-5 combines them.
“We should treat them as five separate things instead of four or two,” Frazier says.
Some day, they just might sort this out so that it makes sense and is consistent...of course, they'll first need to actually understand things like "repetitive movements" and "sensory sensitivities" from our POV instead of comparing them to external behaviors of ND people to realize what is really going on.
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15 May 2016, 9:10 pm
