999 innocent people executed (and not by mistake but by design). But that 1,000th guy- he deserved it. Besides he wasn’t white or anything. That’s the price we pay.
Jesus he’s a piece of shit.
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Either autism and ADD have gone pandemic or medicine still doesn’t know shit about the mind.
https://x.com/WalkerAmerica/status/1813356138445893738?t=xt7kTssCluYMhnRTSsX1Ig&s=19
Testing and looking for it bro
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I assume that 40 years ago individuals on the mild end of what we now call “the spectrum” were not diagnosed with autism.
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Do you still think you’re the smartest poster
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Back when they threw diagnosed children on the short-bus and kept them separate from everyone, people were less inclined to get their children diagnosed. A little further back when Hans Asperger was calling children autistic psychopaths and took part in the Nazi child ‘euthanasia’ program, parents were downright reluctant to seek treatment.
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Good thing they apparently managed to cure hysteria.
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This also explains the massive increase in convictions for witchcraft in the 17th century.
Need to see the intellectual disability line. My mother’s theory is that some autistics were diagnosed as intellectual disabled in the past.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK332894/table/tab_15-1/?report=objectonly
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There may be something to that. When I studied autism in the 90s there wasn’t really much of a theory for it, much less a neurological model, and I don’t think that’s changed much. As with almost all psychological conditions, there is a broad spectrum for “autism” (and for ADD), with canonical/prototypical cases, where there’s clearly significant abnormality that presents similarly across a range of subjects, but that merges gradually into many less notable cases some people would regard as “somewhat abnormal” or within the range of “normal.”
The conditions themselves are reified in the DSM-V, where MDs and clinicians essentially vote on the symptoms that typify the condition. Absent any neurological model there is a lot of room for fuzziness in both “defining” conditions and observing/recognizing “symptoms” of the conditions. This is at least as true for ADD, and I come from a family where my dad and brother were both diagnosed with significant ADD in the early 80s and I believe they had it, whatever it is.
Basically, I’m baseline skeptical of various psychological conditions and diagnoses, while recognizing that there are very real psychological conditions, many of which are acute. I think we need a much firmer taxonomy based on neuroscience and not subjective reports and loose definitions built on fuzzy, often unobservable categories.
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And better genetics.
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Thank you for sharing and it explains a lot.
You are enough simp.
On behalf all mental health professionals, we apologize to all frustrated laypeople that a disordered brain is bit more complicated to address than a broken arm.
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This is the most obvious and simplest answer. Plus, as we know, it’s a spectrum. Not everyone with autism rocks back and forth in the corner and screams at loud noises.
We had our son tested a year or two ago and sure enough, he was on the spectrum. You would never know by hanging out with him - he doesn’t show any “signs” of being autistic. Just seems like a “normal” kid. But there were definitely signs that pointed toward being somewhere on the spectrum, things which have contributed to mental health issues, that made us want a professional diagnosis. And with that, we have been able to give his mental health professionals better tools with which to work.
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“Big data leads to big understanding. And many of you know that more then anyone”
Actual quote from a scripted tech conference plenary I am suffering through this week. I don’t know how those of you with real jobs can cope with this stuff.
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yep, labels.
and parents who know they get free monies if their kid has a disability.
Also not sure if you are aware but this is like key “evidence” in the vaxxes make kids autistic circles
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I work with non verbal autistic adults every day. I really wish the spectrum was not increased to be so all encompassing. I think it can create a sense of diminishment to those most affected.
I think they need distinguishing labels from people who slam their fists hard against their head non stop or pick at anything until their fingers are bleeding while being unable to communicate and people who miss social cues. But I am not a doctor.
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