&gt; It&#x27;s a label that helps people.<p>Yes, that&#x27;s very likely true. But some will argue that it&#x27;s more than a label, that it has an independent reality, whether or not people find it helpful. Such people are trying to class autism with biological conditions, and they may turn out to be right. We won&#x27;t know until someone uses science to link an actual objective cause to the symptoms -- a pathogen or an unambiguous organic source that can be objectively diagnosed without expert opinion playing any part at all.<p>We&#x27;re nowhere near that goal.<p>&gt; When I finally had a psychologist tell me about Asperger&#x27;s, and I went to some of the online communities and read about all of the other people with such similar experiences, it really helped.<p>How did you feel when Asperger&#x27;s was abandoned, after an epidemic of phony diagnoses? Did it matter that many of the diagnoses were just opinion with no objective basis? This is not to claim that those with the Asperger&#x27;s diagnosis were faking, but that their true subjective mental state wasn&#x27;t being accurately assessed, and many smart people were being grouped with people who actually had one or another mental condition.<p>I point this out only to show that we have no idea what Asperger&#x27;s is, or Autism is, and the necessary science is not being done.