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is autism a brain development disorder?
Poll ended at 17 Feb 2012, 11:37 am
Option A 42%  42%  [ 8 ]
Option B 37%  37%  [ 7 ]
Option C 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
Option D 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Option E 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
Option F 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 19

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20 Dec 2011, 2:05 pm

arnoldism wrote:
The different development autistics have, can, and does often, cause problems in some or many areas relative to their environment, which if you like you can call a disorder. Conversely however it can cause benefits in some or many areas. Not all autistics develop the same and some do not develop in a way which can so easily be considered negative, certainly if they are 1. Happy and 2. Functioning well at what they want to do with their life can you say that they have developed in a way which is causing them problems?


Being diagnosed with any ASD require impairment. It requires these problems.

Calling it a disorder doesn't say that it doesn't have positive aspects as well. People who are blind develop better use of hearing. People who are deaf learn to do things that hearing-abled people can do. People who are autistic have both challenges and advantages, just like other disabled people. We'
re not somehow different than the rest and not disabled because of having advantages too.



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20 Dec 2011, 2:34 pm

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I say the word disorder in no way implies delay, it just implies there are some sort of problems that either you have or other people have with you.

My emphasis is on the 'developmental' part of disorder.

Anyway, I grow weary of this conversation. I grow tired of people changing 'disorder' to 'difference' or 'condition' as to not offend people.


It's doesn't mean delay, it could mean to fast, or never reached, or developed just "wrong".


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21 Dec 2011, 8:18 am

By the way guys, this is what my Oxford Paperback Dictionary and Thesaurus says "disorder" means

disorder noun 1 confusion. 2 tumult, riot. 3 bodily or mental ailment.

1 anarchy, chaos, confusion, disarray, disorderliness, disorganisation, jumble, mess, muddle, colloquial shambles, tangle, untidiness. 2 clamour, commotion, disturbance, fighting, fracas, fuss, lawlessness, riot, colloquial rumpus, tumult, uproar 3 see ILLNESS 1.


Illness noun 1 disease. 2 ill health.

1 affliction, ailment, slang bug, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, health problem, indisposition, infection, infirmity, malady, malaise, pestilence, plague, sickness. 2 disability, infirmity, indisposition, sickness, weakness.



I'm telling you, I am autistic and I do not have a disorder. The way I developed was different but it was not negative, I never had a brain development disorder, I just had a different development. Yes, because I developed differently I had some different strenghts and weaknesses so if you want to focus on the negatives and ignore any positives then you could say that my development impaired me. Overall however I feel my development had more benefits and the fact it was different was a positive thing, I have used the positives and I'm not an impaired person at all. The only truly negative aspect to my different development was and is that I can be lonely because I do not relate to or connect with non-autistic people and there are far fewer autistic people around than non-autistic people. As a unit in myself though I am functioning very well and am not ill at all.

I had a different development and not a development disorder.



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21 Dec 2011, 12:53 pm

A difference in brain wiring and connectivity that manifests itself in an alternate pattern of social, communication, and behavioral development relative to that of typical standards. The condition may include disabilities and abilities in uneven distribution relative to their typical developing counter-parts. Unfortunately, the differences in brain development can cause impairments( sometimes severe) primarily in the three areas that were listed above.

Autism is a spectrum with person(s) following a different developmental trajectory across the life Span.


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