#aspeger

[awarriorandafighter]

[drclaudiosaracinodcsworld]

AUTISMO VS IPNOSI...

Il Rapporto tra Autismo e Ipnosi Professionale NO AUTISMO NR 1 audio mp3 DCS di Autoipnosi DCS Vera e Professionale scopri mp3 DCS dal titolo NO AUTISMO NR 1 e cambia il destino: https://claudiosaracino.com/prodotto/… #autismo #asperger #iperattivo Negli ultimi anni, l’interesse per l’uso dell’ipnosi professionale come possibile strumento terapeutico per persone nello spettro autistico è…

AUTISMO VS IPNOSI...

[delightfullyuniquenut]

Why AfD’s Björn Höcke Walked Out of The ZDF Interview Björn Höcke (alternative spelling: Bjoern Hoecke) is the leader of the AfD in the state of Thuringen.

[aspi-girl-blog]

Quand mes grands-parents voulaient m’envoyer en colonie de vacances (heureusement ils ne m’ont pas forcée).

When my grandparents wanted me to go on summer camp (hopefully they didn’t push me).

[thegoldenmanticore]

Only today I‘ve discovered that the reason why sometimes I see BBC Sherlock inside the woman gender spectrum is because he shows a lot of Asperger symptoms that only girls have.

[iamasexgod]

The Autism Spectrum May Be Too Broad

It is an almost unanimous opinion that autistic disorder operates in the manner of a spectrum. There is indeed a fair amount of truth to this; the division of low and high functioning, while somewhat murky, is legitimate, and differing degrees of the disorder can be found in families where the condition is highly genetic. However, there seems to be a narrowing of the spectrum on the lower end, while on the higher end it seems to have expanded to the point where the ends are pretty much frayed. Concerning the lower end of the spectrum, many people who could have been legitimately considered to be autistic are no longer being considered as such due to the dominant and fairly flawed idea that autism is essentially extreme introversion. These lower-functioning (and not so lower-functioning) individuals have nearly all the signs and symptoms of the condition and yet are denied a diagnosis simply due to having an outgoing and friendly demeanor, even if it is simply smiling back at a person. The savant Kim Peek is an example of someone who was indeed autistic, but later had his diagnosis taken away simply due to his personality. The error that is being made is that being outgoing and social has absolutely no bearing on an autistic individual’s social and emotional deficits and idiosyncrasies; such an individual could be highly extroverted and still not be able to pick up on nonverbal cues or remember faces. Autism is about the kind of brain you have, not necessarily your personality. While there is indeed a high correlation between being autistic and being introverted, it is far and away from being one-to-one.

Interestingly, this same error is also the reason why autistic disorder is over-diagnosed on the higher end of the spectrum, to the point where no one really knows what the disorder means anymore (if they ever even did). The belief that autistic disorder is essentially an extreme form of introversion has led a fair amount of relatively bright children and adults to be falsely diagnosed with the condition. The parents and the professionals fail to take into account that people could be extremely introverted due to various other factors, such as possessing other disorders that may mimic the introversion of autism and environmental factors; they also fail to recognize that autistic people aren’t always introverted. However, there are other reasons why it is over-diagnosed on this end, and that is because autism has been reduced to trivial “traits”. People fail to recognize that it requires more than just a handful of “traits” to be autistic; one has to take into account the etiology of the symptoms. Autism is more or less defined by both how one behaves and how one thinks, but since the latter is harder to determine, professionals usually just go with the behaviors. This wouldn’t be so terrible if it wasn’t for the fact that many “autistic traits” are not only not exclusive to autism, but probably don’t have anything to do with autism at all. Don’t like how your clothes tags feel? Well, you might be autistic. Really good at math? Sign of autism, there. Don’t like the slimy texture of sliced pickles? Autism. Autism, autism, autism. Not to mention that many people with other disorders, such as schizophrenia, have a lot of these “autistic traits” and yet are not autistic at all due to why they have those traits and how they manifest. But unfortunately, most people with other disorders are misdiagnosed with autism anyway, due to being the diagnostic dustbin of the times for people whose personalities are rejected. It is very sad and tragic, and often leads to people living a life of identity confusion and misery.

There is a solution to the over-broadening of the autism spectrum. Instead of calling many of the trivial symptoms “autistic traits”, we should term them as being “symptoms common in autism”; that way, they can be recognized as being associated with autism while recognizing that the symptoms are not exclusive to the condition, and as such those alone do not make you autistic. If done this way, then perhaps the lives of many can be saved from grief.

[iamasexgod]

The Fallacy of Self-Diagnosis

The whole argument behind self-diagnosis being valid due to the expenses of getting a professional diagnosis is invalid and erroneous. I'll explain why.

It is basically comparing oranges and footballs. Yes, getting a professional diagnosis can be costly, in some places, however that doesn't lend any validity to self-diagnosis. How are those two things related? The price of a diagnosis means nothing about how valid it is, especially since autism is basically now used as a catch-all term by professionals for the eccentric, introverted and/or developmentally delayed. Parents doctor-shop for doctors who will put a label on their child and give them a buffet of inappropriate medications in order to control their kid. This is the norm, sadly.

Why do people believe that one can come to a valid self-diagnosis? No matter how educated you are, you are probably not qualified to make a diagnosis, no matter whether or not you know yourself more than anyone else. A diagnosis requires objective standards based on the observations of others. Do you see psychiatrists and psychologists diagnosing themselves with various conditions? No, you typically do not. They have to go to another professional for that, just like anyone else.

If valid diagnosis was based on subjective knowledge and education alone, then there would be no need for the science and practice of psychiatry. People would just be able to look at wikipedia/DSM/whatever have you and decide without objective judgment who and what they had. Perhaps this wouldn't be so bad if they didn't center their entire identity on a label, but nonetheless, they do.

And that is the very reason why those who advocate self-diagnosis do not want to be challenged. It is because not only is their opinion being attacked, but also their identity. If they were only wise enough to base their identity on something that wasn't so fragile or fallible as a self-diagnosis, this whole thing probably wouldn't be happening.

Why do such people want to throw decades of science and research out the window simply because it would make the loud minority comfortable? Is it because they think that they are above science, or worse, that their own subjective feelings, thoughts and opinions qualify as scientific fact? Either way, it is destructive, and for the sake of the legitimacy of the various psychiatric conditions, the support of self-diagnosis needs to stop.