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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-…

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 d…

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 duri…

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…

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 "th…

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-diagnosa…

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…

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…

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 https://en.wikiped…

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 …

... 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?) mean…

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 …

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…