Probably not going to be the most popular opinion but...<p>The article really didn&#x27;t shown any proof or even suggested anything besides hinting at various SJ issues. The Autism spectrum at this point is so overblown that I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s even correct anymore at some point this looks like it&#x27;s becoming the new ADHD everyone has it just in a different flavor.<p>At this point Autism is almost no longer classified as physical neurodevelopmental disorder but with a lovely brand new name pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.
Now don&#x27;t get me wrong I don&#x27;t think that low functioning Autism is fake, nor that some actual physical neurodevelopmental syndromes are but the amount of cases that 2 decades ago when psychoanalysis was still in fashion that would be classified as neurosis that are now being classified as autism even tho they do not show any of the physical signs of autism is quite staggering.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that those people are not &quot;sick&quot; I just have very strong suspicion that at the end this whole autism spectrum will blow up. It seems like every week we get a new article about normally functioning adults with various eccentricities that come out and say that they now know why they aren&#x27;t normal and that&#x27;s because they are autistic.<p>Articles like this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;women&#x2F;health&#x2F;why-i-love-knowing-i-have-high-functioning-autism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;women&#x2F;health&#x2F;why-i-love-knowing-i...</a> just make me question this whole ordeal, 5 hours of diagnosis of a woman in her 40&#x27;s with a career and a family is enough to deem some one being autistic without any actual developmental tests, brain imaging or even in depth psychoanalysis.<p>I just don&#x27;t really understand all these cases when people claim that they don&#x27;t feel the same way that other people do (there&#x27;s almost no way to know what other person is feeling, at best empathy will let you know what state they are projecting) or what other people find easy or hard. Not everyone finds socializing easy, not everyone likes to talk about their feelings, not everyone is even capable of building complex emotional attachments and it seems like people go in and out of various states like that throughout their life.