I am still of the opinion that the vast majority of high functioning autism and people "on the spectrum" isnt autism at all, or any sort of mental disorder, at least in the USA. These are the normal and well adjusted people. It is americans that are hyperconfrontational and create drama out of nothing expecting others to guess at subtle hints rather than acting like a mature adult and being direct and communicative of their feelings.

What we really need is a disorder called HSSD (Hyper Sensitive Subtlty Disoorder) or something describing this behavior and the. Label the vast majority of americans as being mentally ill.

The thing that makes this so obvious to me is uf you take any of these people labeled as autistic who feel they cant read social cues and then stick them in a country with a relatively healthy (mentally) population they will function perfectly fine and appear completely normal.

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Do they? Im not sure if autism even has any meds for it does it?

@freemo @RoboftheVolcano its a uselessly vague diagnosis. i've noticed that the palliative bulk of medicine loves to make super-buckets to diagnose people in to and then either shrug or sell symptom masking drugs.

for the variations of autism caused by nutrient deficiencies there is some success in supplementation. otherwise, no.

@icedquinn
For hogh functioning autism i agree, its uselessly vague. But for people with real autism, particularly severe cases, i do think there is a lot of similarity and it does appear to my untrained eyes as a singular disease.
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@RoboftheVolcano @freemo it can be caused by autoimmune disorders and it can be caused by neurotransmitter deficiencies.

both have become more prevalent. ex. human brain mass is shrinking on average.

@RoboftheVolcano
We dont know enough about it to say if there isnt some environmental component. We do know there is a genetic aspect to many cases, but there are yet other cases with no apparent genetic factor. So who knows, maybe there is some "poison" at play.

That said i think many of the rise in cases is just the result of society becoming less mature in the way i mentioned in my OP and this causes more false diagnosis. Could also just be that awareness for the disorder is on the rise.
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@RoboftheVolcano
Its unlikely to be the result of prescription drugs, if that were the case it would have been much easier to identify it as the cause.
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@freemo @RoboftheVolcano what is "real autism" though.

what used to be classified as autism prior to every neurological deficiency being called autism?
@icedquinn
Autists are also hyper sensitive to psychosomatic conditions too, take for example trans people and the absurd amount of drugs they take

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People seem to have forgotten about thr opiod crisis which never really ended

All those people didn't need opioids and yet so many grew addicted and od'd on it...
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@Elfie
What do trans people or the hormone therapy drugs have to do with autism?
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@freemo @Elfie @icedquinn
In the USA Big Pharma provide incentives to Doctors to push pills and hence are keen to diagnose people unnecessarily,

@RoboftheVolcano

I am aware of the dynamic with doctors and the harm, no argument on that point.

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@freemo
Most non binary/trans people are all on the spectrum, whether it's a self diagnose or not is hard to tell but if you don't believe me just find anyone that's trans and ask/check if they have autism :02_shrug:


@icedquinn @RoboftheVolcano
@Elfie @freemo @RoboftheVolcano there is an overlap with schizophrenia so some of the doctors screen for that now. I don't know if they still do since the pushes against having safeguards on transitions.
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