your attitude is common... and I don&#x27;t really understand it.  I mean, yes, psychology, as a science, and psychiatry as a medical discipline, is young and not nearly as systematized and objective as many other sciences.   Psychiatry is less so than the rest of medicine, really, and medicine is less so than, say, civil engineering.<p>But, that doesn&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s without value.   Sure, there&#x27;s a lot less value in psychiatry now than there will be once it becomes more like civil engineering, but that&#x27;s not a reason to ignore what we&#x27;ve got.<p>&gt;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>Why do you think ADHD is not a useful or &quot;correct&quot; diagnosis?   Unlike Autism, there is a spectrum of drugs available which seem to help people who are diagnosed with ADHD quite a lot.<p>Personally, I think that treating these sorts of things is a &quot;social good&quot; to the extent that being productive and able to support oneself is a social good.    if you take someone&#x27;s ADHD and properly treat it, you can take a person who is not capable of contributing positively to the economy, and you can put them in a position where they can hold down an upper-middle class job.<p>I think that for Autism, the workplace is changing some in ways that allow some people who could not previously have held down jobs to do so, which is great, but attacking the problem from the other side; developing medical treatments that allow some percentage of the population to function in society is, in my mind, unalloyed good.<p>edit: more correct psychology&#x2F;psychiatry usage, I believe.