[cstejerean]

Well of course, we basically expanded the ASD definition to cover a wide range in order to ensure that everyone gets access to support if needed, but in the process turned "autism" into a grab bag of different conditions which makes discussions about it difficult because everyone is talking about something else.

[morkalork]

It's kinda like mental health issues go through their own hype-cycles. Autism now is where ADHD was in the late 90s / early 2000s. I say this as someone who went through the Ritalin treatment a long time ago, but that was after my parents were at their wits end tried drugging me with gravol. If that were today, it'd probably be some neurospicy autism diagnosis and treatment.