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Posted by aem7ac on Mon Dec 26 21:23:23 2005 For a time, my girlfriend would rat on me for being autistic. Sort of like what Ron is doing now to some railbuffs here. Everything I did would somehow be interpreted as an autistic behaviour -- like for example, we went out for dinner, let's say I get a steak, and I would separate the food into components first: carrots, broccoli, steak, mash potato, and other trimmings. Then I would eat my food in sequence: first the carrots, because that is my least favourite part of a steak dinner, then the broccoli, and then I would eat the mashed potato and the steak, but in strictly interleaved ratio -- one part potato, two parts steak. She would interpret this as signs of autism and would force me to eat things all mixed up and out of sequence. But I prefer to eat things in sequence.It seems to me that some medical types like to classify people the same way that railbuffs like to classify equipment. If someone displays a behaviour tendency, then they automatically go into a "bucket". Like how E-7's, E-9's, F-8's are in one bucket, F-40's are in one bucket, and SD-40, SD-45, GP-38's are in another bucket. So autistic people are in one bucket, schizophrenic people are in one bucket, and depressed people are in one bucket. But in reality, as research over the past 40 years have demonstrated, there is such as thing as an "autistic spectrum". To a point, everyone display behavioural traits that can be considered autistic spectrum. However, not many people display ALL of the autistic traits, and have those traits so strongly that it prevents them from functioning in a society. Also, some of these autistic spectrum behaviours overlap with behaviour patterns of people with other types of psychological disorders, for example Tourette's spectrum or obsessive-compulsive disorder spectrum behaviours. Just because someone displays ONE aspect of the autistic spectrum disorder does not mean they are autistic. DSM-V in fact has a multi-point diagnostic criteria, and IIRC four our of nine major criteria needs to be satisified before someone could be clinically diagnosed as "autistic". I am guessing most people on this board do not in fact fulfill 4 out of 9 of the major criteria. AEM7AC, B.A. Hons (Psych.) |
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