I don’t agree with a lot of what this guy is saying, and he also seems to bring up that autism and mental illness coexist more often than they don’t like it’s shocking but most autistic people could tell you that it’s obvious because of how traumatic existing in a world where you don’t belong on a fundamental, visceral level is. But I am a little bit intrigued by his talk of ‘multiple autisms’. That being said, the fact that he doesn’t disclose that he’s talking about research that he actively helped author and participate in is. lol. lmao even.
Not sure what’s so controversial about postulating there’s multiple kinds of autisms, likely with different etiologies.
I lean towards believing that calling autism a spectrum is a bit of an oversimplification which streamlined diagnosis of this heterogeneous condition, which is good, but also is going to hurt us in the long run because it makes the data on autism representative only of some averaged amalgamation.
