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No More "Asperger's Syndrome"
cstacy writes "The American Psychiatric Association is dropping Asperger's Syndrome from the upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) Its symptoms will be included under the umbrella of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which includes everything from severe autism such as children who do not talk or interact, to milder forms of autism. Asperger's disorder is impairment in social interaction and repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, activities and interests, without significant delay in language or cognitive development. Often the person has high intelligence and vast knowledge on narrow subjects but lacks social skills. DSM-5 comes out in May and will be the first major rewrite in 19 years."
This. There is a major difference between aspergers and full-on autism.
There IS NO middleground, it is just blatant stretching a term to mean things it doesn't to try cash in on considerably more people requiring "treatment". It is absolutely atrocious.
ADHD is another one. ADD is an actual abnormality, ADHD is bullshit. ADHD is just hyperness and some bullshit about children not paying attention. (an indirect result of a kid trying to run up the walls).
Give them a good bitchslap a day and that will get them in line, there is your damn treatment. ADHD is a direct result of terrible parenting.
Incorrect frameworks of nurture are not diseases and the more they are being labelled that, the more annoyed I become.
Lazy parents should be locked up and children removed from them. They are as childish as the children they are pumping full of useless pills.
Mental age != physical age. So many "adults" have the mental maturity of a grape.
They honestly shouldn't be allowed to leave school without passing a very basic mental maturity test. Sad thing is so many adults right now would fail it with flying colors. And probably be happy about it!
Also damn you AC, gotta prepare some ham for breakfast now.