Two interesting articles in the NYTimes today on Asperger's

Xelebes · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:42 pm Post subject:

I believe that the second article might have some truth to it. There may be doctors out there who are diagnosing with either the wrong incentives (Insurance Company A will not pay for further treatments, or will not pay treatments over B amount of dollars, if the patient does not have a Class C diagnosis,) or there is someone exploiting the vague criteria given for Asperger's. Autism Spectrum requires you to have noticable neurological development problems. This includes physical impairments, either with dexterity (ex. building, tying, writing) or with gross motor movements (ex. running, jumping, balancing) and cognitive impairments. If this person does not have those clear distinctions, then that person may just have a social disability (schizoid, NVLD, sociophobia.) Right now the DSM-IV-TR is too vague with respect to this. DSM-V does not look like it is going to be much better. ICD-10 looks to have better guidelines.
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