Well, I get it, sort of kind of. I was concerned at the headline because I thought that the diagnosis of Aspergers would become ignored or unimportant in America once again, as it was before 1994. Instead though they are saying that the variabilty of diagnoses makes it difficult to treat the entire person, and that their aim is to form a diagnosis not for one piece but the whole puzzle. Since they are acknowledging that autism spectrum people are all really unique and one diagnosis does not necessarily apply to all, I agree, cautiously, that it seems a positive thing to want to look at a person and describe the whole picture, instead of putting someone in a box under a label.
Being self-diagnosed and wanting an official diagnosis, for no reason just to have it -- i've always worked but I've always been different and am finding it more and more difficult to blend, as it were, I was concerned that psychologists and others would poo-poo the whole AS thing, or call me something I was not, or attribute my problems to something completely irrelevant.
But they seem to want to simplify and group an entire designation, full of complications and disparities, under one huge tent, and that seems to be trying to bring a false sense of simplification to something that is not at all simple.
06 Nov 2009, 12:32 pm
