Autism "does not exist" article

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Huphreys can go f**k himself.

You know, most of the time I'd call that sort of an insult uncreative, but in this instance, I agree. F**king himself would be a lot more productive than what he's been doing with his time.

I agree it's not my highest literary point.

Many of them, yes. But not all of them.

Dr Tony Humphreys was on TV3 Ireland AM this morning and appeared alone (i.e. without any parent or autism advocate, because he refused to appear with any, and without any psychologist, because they are too busy hiding). The discussion also featured on the Midday programme on TV3 because of the sheer volume of calls, tweets, faxes and emails that they have had to deal with from parents - the voice of autistic people is not hugely represented. The best outcome of all is the headline that I think the print papers will take up later, a direct quote:


http://www.thejournal.ie/autism-is-a-theory-tony-humphreys-defends-controversial-examiner-article-364800-Feb2012/

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And he's right. It's just a medical theory.

Don't get so offended WPers.

Autism and AS(no more) are still...to this date, only psychiatric diagnoses, that's all.

AS/Autism does not have a known molecular etiology.

Rett syndrome has a known molecular etiology: mutations in the gene MECP2 located on the X chromosome.

William's syndrome has a known molecular etiology: deletion of about 26 genes from the long arm of chromosome 7

It's hard to explain Low-functioning Autism though, it may be really some brain-injury/poisoning of some sort, or some not yet unidentified neurological disorder, and it may be different than AS/HFA.

AS/Autism has no such clear genetic definition (only theories), it is a psychiatric diagnosis only, and many doctors don't view psychiatry as real medicine, the psychiatry field is generally not taken seriously nor respected much by the medical doctors, including neurologists (and no, not only the Scientologists).

Many GPs don't believe in psychiatric diagnoses actually - many medical doctors don't view psychiatry as real medicine and even as real science. Sorry, but this is a fact of the general opinion of medical doctors.

Medical doctors deal with diagnoses of diseases/syndromes that exist in their medical books only, diseases/disorders which had been proved by biologists and scientists - and therefore defined biologically.

AS is only a psychiatric diagnosis studied only by psychiatrists, it doesn't exist in the medical books studied by Med students, it has no biological definition at all. The AS diagnosis is just a list of behaviors like most psychiatric diagnoses.

This general views of medical doctors (and many people) on AS will not change anytime soon.... UNTIL the biological cause of AS is determined (if there's any) and the diagnosis moved to medical books.