What is it about?
This study explains the unique neurophysiological cause of autism, redefines autism in terms of this unique cause, and provides differential diagnostic criteria. Currently, one in 59 children (1.7%) are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). During the 1960s, one in 250 (0.4%) were diagnosed with autism. This apparent 420% increase in reported cases is largely due to misdiagnoses occasioned by changing criteria. Phenotype diagnosing has been abandoned in favor of ticking off symptoms on a checklist with minimal understanding of cause and effect. Dissimilar conditions are now being included under a broad ASD umbrella category. This study explains the unique neurophysiological cause of autism, redefines autism in terms of this unique cause, and provides differential diagnostic criteria plus a litmus test that enables you to know for certain if someone suspected of being autistic has been correctly diagnosed.
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Why is it important?
This article is important because it establishes sound criteria for differentiating between autism and conditions that are often mistaken for it.
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The American Psychiatric Association needs to redefine autism so as to exclude conditions that are unrelated to it. The spectrum idea is misleading because there is only one autism and it is 100%. Either you are autistic, or you are not.
David Rowland
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This page is a summary of: A Need to Redefine Autism: A Review, October 2021, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/bpi/rdmmr/v5/14008d.
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