AardvarkGoodSwimmer
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26 Jun 2012, 3:43 pm
And DSM-4 is no great shakes. The following is the full extent where it talks about sensory issues for the diagnosis of Autism.
And the definition of Asperger's doesn't even talk about sensory issues at all (!) (!)
Quote:
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, DSM-IV, published by American Psychiatric Association, 1994.
299.00 Autistic "Disorder" [my quotes
]
http://books.google.com/books?id=3SQrtp ... 22&f=false
" . . . There may be odd responses to sensory stimuli (e.g., a high threshold for pain, oversensitivity to sounds or being touched, exaggerated reactions to light or odors, fascination with certain stimuli). . . "
299.00 Autistic "Disorder" [my quotes
]http://books.google.com/books?id=3SQrtp ... 22&f=false
" . . . There may be odd responses to sensory stimuli (e.g., a high threshold for pain, oversensitivity to sounds or being touched, exaggerated reactions to light or odors, fascination with certain stimuli). . . "
And that's it ? ? ?
It's like, Wow, you guys (the supposed mental health professionals) haven't really talked with many actual persons on the spectrum at all, have you?
For if they did, they would know about the buzz of fluorescent lights, a second computer screen at the library not being used but with a moving, irritating logo in my field of vision, clothes with itch, etc, etc. And I think some people have considerably more sensory issues than I do.
Instead they write this "odd responses to sensory stimuli." What a put-down. And what a nonengagement with the actual conditions human beings face, and what a non-effort to help.
