Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:12:16 UTC No. 16476428

>>16475971
there's definitely a lot of full on retards getting "autism" diagnoses when they really should be getting "smother in crib for the good of humanity" diagnoses.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:30:00 UTC No. 16476567

>>16475971
My younger sister and I were both diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in our youth but now we are considered to have high functioning autism or "level one autism". Both of us have IQs in the 130s so it's not just in the direction of retardation that the criteria has been expanded.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:42:02 UTC No. 16476590

>>16475971
Rebranding of mental retardation as autism has a lot to do with parents trying to game the school system (and protecting their kids in the process). Autism is usually seen as something that a child can "level up from" whereas mental retardation is a stand-alone "never gets better" diagnosis.
Professional clinicians and school administrators on the other hand came to understand that the suspiciously vague diagnostic criteria of autism renders it potentially useful for their own financial and career-wise interests. Most mentally retarded patients will exhibit a lot of "autistic" behavior since diminished cognitive capability renders them automatically less capable of socio-emotional tasks and consequently ties them to a more repetitive limited set of activities that they can engage in.
There is also a whole other financial enterpreneurial dimension to autism which is about selling autism interventions, autism schooling, autism cures, autism accommodations, autism identity crap etc.
>>16476428
>there's definitely a lot of full on retards getting "autism" diagnoses
There's a lot of demonstrable infantile brain damage/brain injury cases that are now getting labelled as "autistic"

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:08:18 UTC No. 16476626

>>16475971
well, there's lots of different kinds of retard, autists are just one type of retard
the field of retard studies has advanced significantly throughout the past hundred years, developing intricate typology and retard management strategies.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:05:25 UTC No. 16476720

>>16476626
I can't really bother to list all the falsehoods and misconceptions in your comment. It would force me to write three separate posts.
Autism isn't mental retardation
There is only one diagnosis of mental retardation
There is no diagnostic "retard" typology
etc.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:06:58 UTC No. 16476725

>>16476720
you are a retard (autism type)