3:41am September 16, 2014

➸ The diagnostic spectrum - elmindreda - autistic history

A lot has been written about autism and spectra, but there’s one spectrum that is seldom described in clear terms; that of the supposed quality of one’s diagnosis, whichever one happens to have. Thus I have attempted to list the basic categories.

To counteract assumptions about the relative quality of the different kinds, they’re listed in alphabetical order.

This text is mostly anthropological in nature. Criticism of the current state of psychiatric diagnostics with respect to autism will be discussed elsewhere.

(Click the above link to read elmindreda’s entire article on classifying diagnoses themselves along a spectrum.  She covers the full ‘spectrum’ of types of diagnoses from self-diagnosis to diagnosis by famous diagnostician.)

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