alt Hacker News"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...?
"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...?
My point is that autism is already treated by the medical system as many disorders and not as a single thing. The reason they all share a common label is for political reasons, where it makes sense to group them together. But the actual medical system does not treat them as having anything in common, let alone as being homogeneous.