>>1150671 last bread.
>>1150710
been hearing that since Kindergarten, so They may have actually come up with one by now.
You'd probably know much better whom to ask better than i tho.
Happy Autism Awareness Month, Einstein.
http:// www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/record-straight-inventing-the-autism-epidemic,492939
Since 1994, however, when the American Psychiatric Association (APA) expanded the diagnostic criteria for autism in its official manual, the prevalence of autism has increased by twenty-fold (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics: Frances and Batstra, 2013). Dr. Frances is right to question the veracity of the autism epidemic, as the dramatic surge of diagnoses over recent decades does not coincide with an increased incidence of autism in the population.
Ultimately, the children who have been wrongly classified as autistic will pay the price for the over-diagnosis epidemic. They will have to undergo inappropriate treatments, and unnecessarily face a whole host of negative consequences that accompany the label of a lifelong mental impairment
The APA's diagnostic manual is afforded unquestioned authority even though unsound science, political motivations, and financial conflicts of interest (with drug companies) are known to influence its development.
Indeed, without comprehensive ethics oversight, psychiatric diagnostic fads will endure, and the medical sins of each generation will be visited upon the next.