Is It Time to Give Up on a Single Diagnostic Label for Autism?
It was time ten years ago.<p>Autism is one of the most complex moving-parts mental disorders that I know of.<p>I&#x27;m speaking about kids mainly, because that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m familiar with, but some kids have mood swings and some don&#x27;t, some have cognitive tempo irregularities, some have sensory disruptive effects, some have learning disability effects, some have communication difficulties, some have spatial permanence issues, some have memory issues, there are a million different components to the autism spectrum.<p>The autism spectrum is often thought of as a number line, but it actually exists in several dozen dimensions, it&#x27;s a very deep spectrum, with documented cases all over it.<p>It gets worse now that there&#x27;s so much medication flowing around, there are kids who don&#x27;t have attention disorders getting put on attention meds, kids with normal social skills getting out on psychotic stabilizers.<p>Autism has been affected strongly by how aggressively mobile the psychopharmaceutical industry has become. It&#x27;s disgusting. It&#x27;s completely demonic that mental illnesses are graphed and measured and these MEDICINE companies are optimizing for how much orange plastic bottles are being assigned to children!<p>The article is right, DSM did call for it a few years ago, but it will take time and effort to reeducate doctors, the public, the children... It will take time before parents begin to realize the extent to which they are being manipulated and profiteered upon, and the effects of all these drugs in these kids will be profound.<p>I feel strongly about this, but I&#x27;m so disenchanted with how America handles big pharma. It&#x27;s a complete joke. 
Orange plastic and green paper is worth enough to violate the minds of our youth.<p>Edits: it&#x27;s my phone keyboard!