alt Hacker News> what leads us to treat ASD as an actual single disorder, as opposed to a billion different individual neurological profiles?
We already do treat it as the latter. The medical definition of autism is basically just any neurodevelopmental disorder that isn’t ADHD.
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kulahan • yesterday at 8:58 PM
"Why don't we treat it as many disorders instead of just calling everything autism?"
"we do, autism is everything that isn't ADHD"
...what? I must be stroking out, but I have no idea what point you're making here...?
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reubn • yesterday at 8:15 PM
What a ridiculous take.
This hypothesis runs into the slight problem that autism and ADHD are highly co-occurring.