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08 Aug 2010, 2:11 pm

http://www.livescience.com/health/top10 ... ial-1.html



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08 Aug 2010, 2:13 pm

Meh. Asperger's made #4.
I'm surprised Autistic Disorder isn't on there. That's the one people say is caused by vaccines.



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08 Aug 2010, 2:25 pm

If NVLD actually ever was a formally-accepted mental disorder, it might make it
on the list too.



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08 Aug 2010, 2:35 pm

Horus wrote:
If NVLD actually ever was a formally-accepted mental disorder, it might make it
on the list too.


Yeah, because it would be hard to tell if it's NLD, AS, or HFA.



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08 Aug 2010, 2:47 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:
Horus wrote:
If NVLD actually ever was a formally-accepted mental disorder, it might make it
on the list too.


Yeah, because it would be hard to tell if it's NLD, AS, or HFA.





For one thing.... yes.



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08 Aug 2010, 5:29 pm

You found this article too--cool! 8)

#'s 10, 9, 3 and 1 should never have been classified as "disorders" in the first place.


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08 Aug 2010, 6:27 pm

Someone on that website commented that they think psychiatric disroders are "just excuses". It annoys me when people say this as it trivializes our difficulties.



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08 Aug 2010, 6:35 pm

AS and ADHD aren't even psychiatric disorders, but there you go.


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