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Women’s Health Week 2024: Unrecognised Autism

In order for a person to be confirmed as autistic (by a medical professional, opposed to self-identifying alone) they need to meet certain criteria as outlined in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses). While some paediatricians might offer a “diagnosis” of autism without using formal tests, they will usually still be using the DSM-V criteria as their benchmark. Unfortunately, the DSM-V definition is of a very narrow field of traits and presentations[…]

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Off the Spectrum

A little over 100 hundred years ago, the term “autism” was first used to describe an aspect of schizophrenia. What we now know were autistic children were diagnosed at the time as schizophrenic. Previously, autistic people were considered to have dementia, or “developmental retardation”. In the 1930s and 40s, scholars began to appreciate that autism and schizophrenia were actually distinct from each other – though both still considered to be psychiatric conditions.  It took until[…]

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