So, I can agree that broadening the concept of 'autism' can be detrimental, but mostly because it's seen as such a 'big' thing. I personally think it was maybe better to separate 'classical autism' from things like 'asperger's' as a label. But don't forget that these distinctions do exist in the actual field.
But everything else you're saying just isn't true in both my personal experience, that of couples I know with high-functioning children, and what I've found in my research of the matter.
I asked you for evidence (and personal experience does count, to me), but instead you're just listing/reiterating all the same things that I also keep hearing over and over from people who generally don't know what they're talking about.
Again, I do see some of your points, but for me these have become basically a 'meme' that is spread by people who are stuck with pop-psychology knowledge from sometimes decades ago. Stuff like 'ADD isn't a thing, it's just that boys need to be free' etc.
Not all untrue, but way too one-sided to be helpful or informative. It does make one feel like a clever contrarian though...
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying you're uninformed, but rather that I hear these things a lot from people who base their opinion on the pop-contrarian articles du jour.
See what I have listed is coming from my personal experience. I am not reiterating anything seen or heard anywhere just to be contrarian. I have struggled for more than a year with various doctors across two countries.
My thinking not against diagnostic but clumping a broad range of symptoms which affects life very differently is just lazy.
But everything else you're saying just isn't true in both my personal experience, that of couples I know with high-functioning children, and what I've found in my research of the matter.
I asked you for evidence (and personal experience does count, to me), but instead you're just listing/reiterating all the same things that I also keep hearing over and over from people who generally don't know what they're talking about.
Again, I do see some of your points, but for me these have become basically a 'meme' that is spread by people who are stuck with pop-psychology knowledge from sometimes decades ago. Stuff like 'ADD isn't a thing, it's just that boys need to be free' etc.
Not all untrue, but way too one-sided to be helpful or informative. It does make one feel like a clever contrarian though...
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying you're uninformed, but rather that I hear these things a lot from people who base their opinion on the pop-contrarian articles du jour.