There’s a very popular way of talking about autism as “explaining” or providing a “why I am different,” that to me doesn’t make sense: https://intellectualizing.net/2015/03/31/not-explaining-auti... There’s a…
aspergers was lumped into autism, it wasn't made non-diagnosable. Previously the criteria for aspergers were the same as autism but without delayed language development. Now they decided that distinction wasn't worth…
autism isn't adult-acquired though (literally by definition, DSM specifies that it must be present in childhood). So you'd need parent and child to share environmental factors during their respective infancies.
To clarify, I'm not trying to argue definitively that these traits are all genetic vs. acquired by watching one's parents. Perhaps it's some mix, though mostly-genetic seems likely to me. I _am_ trying to say that often…
If you're saying it could be the autistic behavior is learned rather than genetic, then I agree, you'd need a twin study to rule that out conclusively. However, when people say "the autism epidemic is environmental"…
Kids often share autistic traits with their parents. The parents are either diagnosable themselves or very nearly so. My son is the third or fourth generation to be likely-diagnosable, for example. Currently-middle-aged…
When the autism diagnostic criteria were broadened in the DSM, the people making that change predicted that we would see this rise in diagnostic rates. That was the intent, to help a broader range of people. It's played…
The article says 1-5% of the ASD cases they looked at were related to the "HARs" (human-accelerated regions). The most important thing to understand about autism is that it isn't a single condition, but an umbrella…
Professional diagnosis would involve a standardized set of questions, like ADI-R http://www.wpspublish.com/store/p/2645/autism-diagnostic-int... or ADOS module 4…
It varies a lot by city and state what the available resources are. google and ask around for local autism experts. There are often autism specialist centers of various kinds, for example at universities, and there are…
... when I wrote 89.9 I meant 98.9 (perhaps obvious)
It should be noted that in kids nobody can say whether it will _always_ interfere with their daily life in a material way. Autism diagnosis in a preschooler usually (90%-ish?) means it will, which is amazingly accurate…
As with any child, one can address behavior issues without shaming or hating who the child is. In an adult relationship, it's the difference between "You make me feel bad when you do xyz" and "Why do you always have to…
If you want to understand what the current research says it means, a great book is Rethinking Autism by Lynn Waterhouse; see my review of it at http://intellectualizing.net/2013/12/17/book-rethinking-auti... and the…
There’s a very popular way of talking about autism as “explaining” or providing a “why I am different,” that to me doesn’t make sense: https://intellectualizing.net/2015/03/31/not-explaining-auti... There’s a…
aspergers was lumped into autism, it wasn't made non-diagnosable. Previously the criteria for aspergers were the same as autism but without delayed language development. Now they decided that distinction wasn't worth…
autism isn't adult-acquired though (literally by definition, DSM specifies that it must be present in childhood). So you'd need parent and child to share environmental factors during their respective infancies.
To clarify, I'm not trying to argue definitively that these traits are all genetic vs. acquired by watching one's parents. Perhaps it's some mix, though mostly-genetic seems likely to me. I _am_ trying to say that often…
If you're saying it could be the autistic behavior is learned rather than genetic, then I agree, you'd need a twin study to rule that out conclusively. However, when people say "the autism epidemic is environmental"…
Kids often share autistic traits with their parents. The parents are either diagnosable themselves or very nearly so. My son is the third or fourth generation to be likely-diagnosable, for example. Currently-middle-aged…
When the autism diagnostic criteria were broadened in the DSM, the people making that change predicted that we would see this rise in diagnostic rates. That was the intent, to help a broader range of people. It's played…
The article says 1-5% of the ASD cases they looked at were related to the "HARs" (human-accelerated regions). The most important thing to understand about autism is that it isn't a single condition, but an umbrella…
Professional diagnosis would involve a standardized set of questions, like ADI-R http://www.wpspublish.com/store/p/2645/autism-diagnostic-int... or ADOS module 4…
It varies a lot by city and state what the available resources are. google and ask around for local autism experts. There are often autism specialist centers of various kinds, for example at universities, and there are…
... when I wrote 89.9 I meant 98.9 (perhaps obvious)
It should be noted that in kids nobody can say whether it will _always_ interfere with their daily life in a material way. Autism diagnosis in a preschooler usually (90%-ish?) means it will, which is amazingly accurate…
As with any child, one can address behavior issues without shaming or hating who the child is. In an adult relationship, it's the difference between "You make me feel bad when you do xyz" and "Why do you always have to…
If you want to understand what the current research says it means, a great book is Rethinking Autism by Lynn Waterhouse; see my review of it at http://intellectualizing.net/2013/12/17/book-rethinking-auti... and the…