Autism Speaks & You, or "Autistic children will ruin your marriage"

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twodot: Aug 7, 2005; You are objectively correct that this person is dumb and has said dumb things

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Unless your friend is also a doctor her feelings and opinions on neurodevelopmental disorders aren't hugely relevant.

I think there is a fairly solid argument for "More than 0% of the time, doctors diagnose people as autistic, when their mental condition is not actually detrimental.", but any definition of autism that doesn't contain "disorder" is obviously broken.

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twodot: Aug 7, 2005; You are objectively correct that this person is dumb and has said dumb things

SedanChair posted:

But how oddly specific we are in our definition of "disorder." Which is more debilitating, to flap your arms and hop in place while playing video games or to lack all capacity for analysis or introspection and fail to recognize the danger in Rick Santorum's eyes? To have a detailed interest in trains or to fear people based on their race?

What's odd about it? Disorder isn't meant to describe every possible negative characteristic (we can just call those negative characteristics). The point here is that autism is, by definition, bad. It may be that we incorrectly characterize people, but questioning whether autism is something that should be cured is just failing to understand its definition.

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