Newsweek - Autism Awareness Still Has a Long Way To Go

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On another site, a guy with a PhD told me that they had made progress, and identified a gene which may play a part in autism. I asked him which autism that would be and got no answer.

Progress in science comes mostly from breaking things down and simplifying them, to ease analysis, and to differentiate results from chaff. That way hypotheses can be more easily tested, giving reliable results which can then be further analysed for even better results. By applying the same label to a multitude of conditions, as the autism research community have done, prevents any such progress, so those of you who defend the status quo must be against finding any cures for any of these "autisms".

Either that, of you have little aptitude for scientific reasoning, which would be puzzling, as scientific reasoning is a recognised trait of people who comply to the autistic label as was historically understood, hence all your Einsteins, Newtons and a host of those commonly described as natural philosophers, all the way back to Archimedes and beyond, who all, without exception, fit the historical pre Kanner Autistic label.

As many have observed, had Einstein been born more recently, he would most properly have been diagnosed as HFA, but what does that mean in this context? Sure, he was a late talker, but does that define the rest of his life? Did he have mega brain capacity because he had autism? It's hardly likely, is it? Was he socially awkward? Clearly (but not dysfunctionally) so! Was that an indication of autism? No; it's part and parcel of being strongly autistic, and is more accurately described as a difference than a defect (Autistics encountering others of their kind, have no such interaction problems).

Did he have any physical difficulties? I've read of none; in this respect he seems to me to have been just another normally functioning human being, so why this "High Functioning" Autistic/Autism title? What purpose does it have other than to confuse issues, for purely political motives?

The PHD scientist won’t say what autism that is because autism is a symptom not a causation.

Hearing voices is a symptom of schizophrenia or it could be a symptom of LSD use.

They will just name the gene that causes the symptoms and refer to that as the disorder I.e 15q11-q13 duplication syndrome that gives the person autism/ ID

The gene label will probably take over the symptom label in the future. When two dr are discussing what is the cause of that patient issues they’ll probably say 15q11-q13 duplication syndrome rather than autism.

In terms of Neurodiversity and difference I guess it depends if the person’s issues are a serious problem or not getting in the way of a normal life.

Einstein was married twice had a professional career, if he was seriously disabled he would have encountered a lot of discrimination at the time and probably wouldn’t have been trusted with expensive scientific equipment.

He traveled to the US to seek asylum from nazi Europe.

He didn’t need any carers with him ( if they existed at the time) he was an independent man who was able to fight his case verbally.

So you have to ask yourself how disabled was he? whatever personality he supposedly had never really got in the way too much.

Does that sound like you or I or many autistic people on this site or you know?

I can’t answer for you but I think for the rest the answer is no.

It’s the same for musk and gates, the former diagnosis is ambiguous and dubious the latter never diagnosed

Because the point is to smear neurodivergence as some sort of villain against curing sufferers of autism or a useless entity that only promotes elitist fantasy cope.

There's no actual science.
The science and data quoted is cherry picked and used to justify against pro-neurodivergent views. That low support needs steals from high support needs resources.


But sure...

As if getting involuntarily committed only ever happens to autistics and not some sort of psychiatric schemes theme; whether weaponized by business entities against vulnerable populations and opportunistic authorities, or by toxic manipulative households or institution into gaslighting a designated victim.

Even if said victim used to be a competent NT with all societal milestones attained, lots of loving friends and a family, reduced into a dehumanized psych case, just as wrongfully medicated and imprisoned.


Oh, and -- because if you meet one autistic...
Not all of them only sees great thinkers and elevated nonconformist. Or someone who might able to relate or worse, project themselves into.

Some only sees the needy of caretaker for 24/7 intellectually disabled violent cases and/or the victimized rejected bullied lonely losers.


And oh; the overall diagnostic overshadowing -- putting all the severity in autism.

If you get a low IQ allistic and a high IQ allistic -- think their needs are the same? Do they steal resources from each other?

And as for autism label as a dumping ground...

Lol.
What's not mentioned; giving the autism label as placeholder to insurance papers.
Even support levels itself is from the same reasoning. Even the functioning level has the same reasoning.



I think...
The issues around neurodiversity is the least of high support needs of autistics and their families.

Really.
They're not looking at the systems enough.

Most lay people just sees the social and political, the needs in front of them and whatever families that resonated with them.

Thus all that demand from the government. I see the same patterns in my country, except it's nothing to do with support needs of one condition.

But not beyond them.
Not the business schemes, not the class wars...

From what I can see their so called domain is but a collateral that neurodivergence had nothing to do with nor is able to do anything to.