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Source: The Art of Being Asperger Woman - May 25, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Aspie Bird) Source Type: blogs
Are autistic people natural born criminals?
Associations between autism and notorious violent crimes are easy to find--they seem almost automatic.Here is one example,and another, andone more. There seems to be anentire book on this theme, though I haven ' t read it.In the scientific literature, you can find powerful deficit models of autism at work in predictions that autistics should disproportionately be violent and prone to criminal behavior. For decades now, examples and claims (just a fewhere,here,here,here) fitting this prediction have been highlighted, while the few dissenting views (e.g.here andhere) have had little effect.Then there ' s political expedience...
Source: The Autism Crisis - October 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs
Proposed new autism criteria: the DSM-V
Here they are and here are ten off-the-cuff thoughts:1. The most sit-up-and-take-notice change is the total removal of Rett syndrome from the DSM. It is gone. The DSM-V people are saying, " genetic syndromes don ' t belong in our book, " or words to that effect, and I agree.2. Indeed the vast majority of named neurodevelopmental disabilities do not appear in the DSM, past, present, or future. This raises the question of why autism is there. Rett ' s being excluded is not going to immediately result in Rett ' s individuals being catastrophically deprived of recognition or assistance. Instead it may result in these individua...
Source: The Autism Crisis - February 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs
1 in 86: the prevalence of autism among adults
"Autism rate in children has doubled, say doctors" ... "Autism ' more common than thought '" ... "Autism in children ' 10 times higher ' than first thought" ... "Autism at a record high" ... "autism is 25 times more common than what researchers thought" ...This mess of headlines and claims was generated in response to one autism prevalence study, Baird et al. (2006), published in the Lancet.All 56,946 individuals comprising the targeted population cohort in this study are, as of today, the last day in the decade, 18 years of age or older. They were born between July 1, 1990 and Dec 31, 1991 and they are now all adults.With...
Source: The Autism Crisis - December 31, 2009 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs
Notes on autism severity and the DSM-V
I was asked briefly to comment onthe notion of " severity " of autism as currently proposed for the DSM-V. Here are some far from complete notes (some from earlier writing or work of mine) I organized in response:Currently, “severity” of autism most often refers to the attempt to quantify the obviousness of autistic traits and abilities. The more obvious these traits and abilities are judged to be, and therefore the more atypical a person is judged to be, the more “severe” autism is considered to be.Being “more severe” (having more obvious autistic traits and abilities, or being more obviously atypical) is wide...
Source: The Autism Crisis - June 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs
