I just read that there is a bacteria which is common to the guts, and only the guts, of autism patients and they don’t know why.

I know that we can’t seem to decide the qualifications necessary to be a red-blooded (red – can we say that?) American Girl Scout but perhaps questions like these should be answered before they start sewing labels onto everybody’s undies.

Forty years ago I read one of those three-part New Yorker articles about a woman who had spent decades in state mental dungeons until some doctor noticed a greenish tinge on her retinas.

Wilson’s Disease – caused by an inability to metabolize copper and which mimics schizophrenia.

And now with the numbers of children with Autism multiplying in astronomical numbers from the first years of the disease as It used to be in the order of one in hundreds of thousands to one in 150 since the multiplication of Vaccines our children are assaulted with at one time? The numbers were begging for an explanation. Now, Presto, we just had an astounding drop in the numbers of Autistic Children. So we can stop demanding answers from the Medical Priesthood and the pharmaceutical companies.

However, whether or not a child fits a new, stricter definition of ‘autistic’ or simply has behavioral problems due to familial issues is in a practical sense irrelevant IMO. It is in the long term best interests of society to make every effort to assist these kids to become social ‘animals’ that can function independently in society in a positive manner.

i am better off trying out for the choir triumphant…
–Artfldgr

This life is the tryouts. Looks like you’ve been selected to play a position that most others aren’t judged tough enough for. Leaving the tryouts early can entirely ruin ones prospect of making the team.

I took abnormal psychology back in college.

Useful background for dealing with us.

I think for most people the terms psychologist, psychiatrist, therapist, marriage and family therapist, are somewhat interchangeable, but they are actually quite different.

How about subsuming all into one meaningless but topical term: “marital organizer?”

It is more like a Diagnosis-of-the-Month Club.
DSM makes most dysfunctionals ‘victims’ of ‘diseases’ or ‘maladies’, but they’re just dysfunctional and are not/cannot be changed by the ‘therapy’ that is practiced today.

Don’t read it unless you have a wish to pull your own hair out (That’s a described disorder-trichotillomania).

Take from someone who actually knows, you’re not.