"Autism spectrum disorder", by virtue of being a "disorder" ISN'T a single condition with one cause.
That's what disorder means
Every single medical professional is aware of that.
None of the neurodivergent conditions have a single "cause" yet. None of them are "diseases" yet because we don't know what causes them.
Yes, lots of people have small amounts of the "symptoms" that get labeled as a condition. That is not meaningful.
Everyone gets diarrhea sometimes. But if you get diarrhea regularly, or really bad diarrhea, or diarrhea that includes severe pain, then it might be IBD. IBD doesn't have one cause. It's very unlikely that it's even a single problem.
If you eat too much greasy food and have bad shits, you do not have IBD even though you have that "symptom". If you claim to have IBD, you are just wrong.
Yes, some people on tiktok who think they have ADHD or Autism are just wrong. If Americans could afford to go to the doctor for non-life threatening problems, they could get a psychologist to tell them that. Americans self diagnose because they can't go to the doctor.
This is all true of "Cancer" as well, but there isn't a giant PR campaign to convince Americans that we are diagnosing too many people as having cancer. Nobody gives a shit that both they guy who dies in a month from metastasizing brain tumors and the guy who had to remove a benign skin mole both had "Cancer". Every kind of cancer has a name, but people will still say "I have Cancer" just fine.
It's only with Autism and ADHD that people insist we have somehow done something wrong by using the exact same language structures as other medical problems.
Meanwhile, with attacks against Social Security, this admin who claims to care so much about helping Autistic people is ensuring that people who cannot function in society will die miserably and uncared for.
Maybe Tylenol while pregnant is a risk factor for people who are already genetically predisposed to it or something. The data sucks so far, but maybe further study will show something. My sister worked on a study in the 2000s that was looking at this, as well as looking at getting the flu while pregnant. Nothing came of it.
That's what disorder means
Every single medical professional is aware of that.
None of the neurodivergent conditions have a single "cause" yet. None of them are "diseases" yet because we don't know what causes them.
Yes, lots of people have small amounts of the "symptoms" that get labeled as a condition. That is not meaningful.
Everyone gets diarrhea sometimes. But if you get diarrhea regularly, or really bad diarrhea, or diarrhea that includes severe pain, then it might be IBD. IBD doesn't have one cause. It's very unlikely that it's even a single problem.
If you eat too much greasy food and have bad shits, you do not have IBD even though you have that "symptom". If you claim to have IBD, you are just wrong.
Yes, some people on tiktok who think they have ADHD or Autism are just wrong. If Americans could afford to go to the doctor for non-life threatening problems, they could get a psychologist to tell them that. Americans self diagnose because they can't go to the doctor.
This is all true of "Cancer" as well, but there isn't a giant PR campaign to convince Americans that we are diagnosing too many people as having cancer. Nobody gives a shit that both they guy who dies in a month from metastasizing brain tumors and the guy who had to remove a benign skin mole both had "Cancer". Every kind of cancer has a name, but people will still say "I have Cancer" just fine.
It's only with Autism and ADHD that people insist we have somehow done something wrong by using the exact same language structures as other medical problems.
Meanwhile, with attacks against Social Security, this admin who claims to care so much about helping Autistic people is ensuring that people who cannot function in society will die miserably and uncared for.
Maybe Tylenol while pregnant is a risk factor for people who are already genetically predisposed to it or something. The data sucks so far, but maybe further study will show something. My sister worked on a study in the 2000s that was looking at this, as well as looking at getting the flu while pregnant. Nothing came of it.