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> what leads us to treat ASD as an actual single disorder, as opposed to a billion different individual neurological profiles? We already do treat it as the la
by Alex3917 20d ago
> what leads us to treat ASD as an actual single disorder, as opposed to a billion different individual neurological profiles?
We already do treat it as the latter. The medical definition of autism is basically just any neurodevelopmental disorder that isn’t ADHD.
- reubn 20d agoWhat a ridiculous take.
- kulahan 20d ago"Why don't we treat it as many disorders instead of just calling everything autism?" "we do, autism is everything that isn't ADHD" ...what? I must be stroking out, but I have no idea what point you're making here...?
- Alex3917 20d agoMy point is that autism is already treated by the medical system as many disorders and not as a single thing. The reason they all share a common label is for political reasons, where it makes sense to group them together. But the actual medical system does not treat them as having anything in common, let alone as being homogeneous.
- coldtea 20d ago>But the actual medical system does not treat them as having anything in common, let alone as being homogeneous. That's not really true. Not to mention the very TFA, and the research that led to papers like it, is based on the opposite.
- Alex3917 20d agoI mean you can literally upload your genetic methylation variants and bloodwork into Gemini and have it one shot a custom treatment plan for you, how much more personalized do you want? Obviously if you want hand holding from the medical system you can pay a psychiatrist or a functional doctor to do the same thing, but at this point the idea that treatment isn't personalized enough is frankly absurd.
- coldtea 20d agoIs this satire?
- preg_match 20d agoNo, AI can greatly help with research. It helped me a lot during my cancer treatment, which was very complicated. Which makes sense, every cancer is different, and mine was quite crafty and unique. But that's it. It helps with research, that's it. You still need doctors, typically multiple different doctors of different specialties, if you want correct treatment. The AI is a good starting point, so you can start asking your doctor the right questions, but it's never the ending point. At least, in my opinion. I'm sure it depends on the condition, and how much it follows a template.
- kulahan 20d agoAh, I can see how that would be the case. But I thought it was moving in the other direction? I am extremely ignorant here, so correct me, but the only example I know of is that they removed Asberger's Syndrome and turned it into generic Autism.
- Alex3917 20d agoYes, that was a political decision based on the fact that people with Asperger’s weren’t able to access sufficient social support. But from a medical perspective, the two have basically nothing to do with each other; Asperger’s is primarily about the connectivity between brain regions, whereas (traditional) autism is more about functionality within brain regions. Obviously there is a lot of overlap and this isn’t necessarily the mainstream scientific interpretation, but I think it’s the most parsimonious way to define these terms.
- inigyou 20d agoThis hypothesis runs into the slight problem that autism and ADHD are highly co-occurring.