“group of parents and clinicians who are calling for the autism spectrum diagnosis to effectively be split in two, saying it has become so broad that it is obscuring the experiences of the seriously disabled people it was first meant to describe”

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It should probably be split into 10 different slices, but that won’t happen until we understand a hell of a lot more. In the meanwhile – yeah, break it up. I think a NIMH director tried to push a division of the insanely broad syndromic classification years ago. The current definition is too broad to be useful for either research, prognosis, or treatment.