>>17925919I really wish the diagnostic criteria that exists for autism requires proof of problematic behaviours i.e. You think your son's autistic? Time to provide the speech pathologist reports etc indicating they he didn't speak until so or so (or they're mute, or so reserved/shy they couldn't communicate to a stranger when they were alone) etc. These days it just seems like some garbage parents are using it as the intellectual version of fibromyalgia (i.e. there are definitely legitimate cases of it existing but people are using adopting it as some form of trend and it makes it more difficult for people with the issue in question to get help or be taken seriously).
