The myth of Autism

'Autism' assumes a condition from a set of behaviours and uses this
condition to infer that what is observed are 'symptoms'. Yes, you are
right, the concept 'Autism' is circular, incoherent.

I worked for 7 years with people with disabilities, some of whom were
very socially challenging. Not once did I think 'he's got autism'. Then
one day someone said 'he's got autism'. This meant nothing to me. I
already knew the person, now I am told he 'has' (has?)something. So the
only time I EVER found this 'autism' was when someone labelled someone
else with it. Now why would anyone want to do that? And that's
precisely what autism is - a vicious, unhelpful label, a conceptually
irrelevant, confused notion. Try this link.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_culture