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by jklinger410 1404 days ago
Medical literature and consensus says autism is one disorder with a spectrum of symptoms and that Aspbergers is not a unique disorder and that is currently wrong. So citing some other very similar research isn't going to do anything for me.

Autistic children are born not caring for faces, or eyes, and social interaction. Feral children do not have eyes or faces or social interaction to look at. So if it's not technically autism, it's not any different than the myriad of disorders currently lumped together as autism.

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Perhaps you should be more upfront when using a personal, not medically accepted definition of a condition when discussing its root causes
What's the point of using the medically accepted definition of a condition when it is wrong?
> What's the point of using the medically accepted definition of a condition when it is wrong?

Since you seem to have no opposition to using personal definitions of things based on personal opinions without feeling the need to clarify, I'm glad you agree with me 100%

If you want to actually engage with the topic instead of trying to start shit with me, that would be a lot more productive.
If you want to communicate, don't assert facts about things while secretly using your own definitions. That would be a lot more pudding.

In this case, to be clear, pudding means productive.