How To Cure The Autism Epidemic? Make Believe It Doesn’t Exist.
In their infinite wisdom, the American Psychiatric Association is, after almost two decades, updating the medical definition of autism and by “updating” I mean “narrowing.” It almost appears that, in a misguided attempt to deal with the increasing rate at which autism is being diagnosised, they have decided to exclude a great deal of the less extreme cases of autism by simply claiming they do not actually have autism.
Autism. The word summons up images of Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man and of children that appear