I work with children and families and I’ve noticed a huge increase of children being assessed and diagnosed with autism. One thing I’ve noticed is that many of those with behavioural challenges, social difficulties and low mood and anxiety have had parents that experience mental ill health for some time. While I don’t claim to be educated on the subject I do wonder whether it’s autism or whether it is in fact a developmental thing in early childhood due to parent/s inconsistencies in resilience and not positively interacting and playing, etc. I also think the new generations of parents on phones, ignoring children or being content to let children spend time on devices from an early age and not interacting with others plays a part. Who knows I could be very wrong but that’s how it seems in my experience.
Help me! I just know two girls that had traumatic infancy. They grow up and marry quicklu with first guy appeared. Than had kids, and everything about their kids they made as it was a problem, and they were looking do answers and problems that do not exist, and now they say that their children and themselves are autistic. I notice this, so parents that probably had traumatic infancy and are with some mental health issues are inventing that their kids have autism. Do you see that as well?
The genetic component cannot be denied. Also, adhd and autism are at a higher rate seen together. So parents are probably not working with all the support they could have gotten as children themselves
There is indeed a mental health crisis which is leading to more false-positive diagnoses of ASD from clinicians who like to use ASD as a catch-all for any social interaction difficulties paired with obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
As a psychiatrist for years I heard from psychologists we were over medicalizing. Once psychologists realised they can make money from diagnosing autism in anyone who is willing to pay we stopped hearing that criticism. Correlation isn't causation but it sure makes you think.
I have no problems with honest psychologists making money diagnosing autism in those of us that are autistic, any more than I have a problem with any psychiatrists medicating those that truly need it, though my preference is to only use as much medicine as absolutely required; because of others seeking more than required, I tend to not have things go ideally for the very painful things I at times deal with, as drugs are explicitly engineered to cause liver damage if you take more than they think you should need: my neurology/physiology has very atypical responses to a number of drugs, as well as having a higher pain threshold, which causes issues, too. All such drugs used to treat significant pain I’ve used have bad enough side-effects that even if I wanted to medicate myself indefinitely for whatever reason, I don’t go longer than needed: I tend to use them for far shorter durations than most. I’ve never come close to becoming addicted. Sadly, where there’s some form of currency people prefer and can get paid in, be it in money, power, recognition, whatever, there will invariably be those willing and able to be unscrupulous in whatever endeavor they engage in. People are people, and people aren’t clones, by and large.
So in resume... The doctor it's not saying ASD doesn't exist or it's a lie. But saying it's been changing and evolving maybe too much that apparently other doctors haven't been able to diagnose a person correctly because how abroad the changes are being made that are quite different to what they were decades ago. And other it's that Doctors are just been diagnosed kids/ Adults just for pity. Conclusion: Over diagnosed people with ASD because of doctors negligence
And it hurts people who really have autism. Maybe there is a form of autism thats not a disability but my friend has a son who is nonverbal and cannot go to school his autism is so bad. He will need a caretaker for the rest of his life. That IS a disability.
I'm a late diagnosed autistic and I'd prefer to see correct assessments for everyone's benefits being properly aligned for best feasible results. IQ isn't generally useful as a criteria as allistics have the same IQ range issues without having autistic neurology, IQ and autistic/allistic neurology are orthogonal issues. As to how "unfair" it is for autistics to get more support, well... Everywhere in the world I'm aware of, autistics have more doors closed than opened to them because of their neurology, not to mention being forced to adapt in a very one-sided way to allistic interaction standards, and being pathologized for having different brain wiring where we don't naturally read/write the same style of communication both verbal and nonverbal, and for having a different perspective and way of processing reality. It's hard to have a good mental health profile because of the perpetual abuse by allistics via bullying, etc. throughout life. We are targets of those not like us, simply because we're not like others, even if we are not interacting with others in the same vicinity. The best we can hope for to not be such a clear target is masking, for those of us that can, but that fries our brains and in general leads to bad mental health. Until you've lived the life of being different in that manner, and compare a d contrast that to everyone else, you aren't in a place of understanding what the reality is. I'd suggest, doc, you get to actually know many of us autistics and ask about more than merely the DSM/etc. definitions and how our lives are lived, so you can have as much empathy as autistic individuals are claimed to not have by allistics.
If you can suffer from Autistic Burnout then that's a very clear indication you're autistic. I wasn't aware until very recently that's a thing. It's not enjoyable.
@@janedoe6704 you think you’re making a valid point here? You are not. Autistic burnout is specific to those with that form of neurology (autistic), with far more severe ramifications than other forms of burnout anyone may suffer from that don’t involve drug abuse that causes permanent brain damage.
@@strictnonconformist7369how do you know it is more severe than other forms of burnout? How did you know what other forms of burnout are like? How did you measure "severity of burnout"? Are you sure the "autistic burnout" you observed are autistic burnout while the less severe form of burnout you have observed are "neurotypical burnout"?
@@yucheung5853 if you wish to understand instead if merely attack, I invite you to do research on autistic burnout. I don’t have the time or energy to attempt to teach people that only seek to attack me and waste my time and energy. Autistic burnout can last indefinitely, and can potentially leave the individual more disabled than they were before, possibly permanently. Not merely “oh, I won’t go back to doing that sort of work again.” but across all aspects of their life.
Lol you know its iffy if there is no objective standard of burnout and someone can just claim they have a burnout thats worse (compared to what) and that it must be autism
I work with children and families and I’ve noticed a huge increase of children being assessed and diagnosed with autism. One thing I’ve noticed is that many of those with behavioural challenges, social difficulties and low mood and anxiety have had parents that experience mental ill health for some time. While I don’t claim to be educated on the subject I do wonder whether it’s autism or whether it is in fact a developmental thing in early childhood due to parent/s inconsistencies in resilience and not positively interacting and playing, etc. I also think the new generations of parents on phones, ignoring children or being content to let children spend time on devices from an early age and not interacting with others plays a part. Who knows I could be very wrong but that’s how it seems in my experience.
Help me! I just know two girls that had traumatic infancy. They grow up and marry quicklu with first guy appeared. Than had kids, and everything about their kids they made as it was a problem, and they were looking do answers and problems that do not exist, and now they say that their children and themselves are autistic. I notice this, so parents that probably had traumatic infancy and are with some mental health issues are inventing that their kids have autism. Do you see that as well?
The genetic component cannot be denied. Also, adhd and autism are at a higher rate seen together. So parents are probably not working with all the support they could have gotten as children themselves
There is indeed a mental health crisis which is leading to more false-positive diagnoses of ASD from clinicians who like to use ASD as a catch-all for any social interaction difficulties paired with obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
Finally, someone trying to bring an end to this madness.
Exactly! It’s crazy who is diagnosed with Autism nowadays!
@@LaraDorren1 Seriously. Every parent I know under 40 has at least one autistic kid, if not two or three. No WAY that's a real thing.
As a psychiatrist for years I heard from psychologists we were over medicalizing. Once psychologists realised they can make money from diagnosing autism in anyone who is willing to pay we stopped hearing that criticism. Correlation isn't causation but it sure makes you think.
That’s pretty sad
@@solomons5669 it is.
I have no problems with honest psychologists making money diagnosing autism in those of us that are autistic, any more than I have a problem with any psychiatrists medicating those that truly need it, though my preference is to only use as much medicine as absolutely required; because of others seeking more than required, I tend to not have things go ideally for the very painful things I at times deal with, as drugs are explicitly engineered to cause liver damage if you take more than they think you should need: my neurology/physiology has very atypical responses to a number of drugs, as well as having a higher pain threshold, which causes issues, too. All such drugs used to treat significant pain I’ve used have bad enough side-effects that even if I wanted to medicate myself indefinitely for whatever reason, I don’t go longer than needed: I tend to use them for far shorter durations than most. I’ve never come close to becoming addicted.
Sadly, where there’s some form of currency people prefer and can get paid in, be it in money, power, recognition, whatever, there will invariably be those willing and able to be unscrupulous in whatever endeavor they engage in. People are people, and people aren’t clones, by and large.
Excellent video
So in resume... The doctor it's not saying ASD doesn't exist or it's a lie. But saying it's been changing and evolving maybe too much that apparently other doctors haven't been able to diagnose a person correctly because how abroad the changes are being made that are quite different to what they were decades ago. And other it's that Doctors are just been diagnosed kids/ Adults just for pity.
Conclusion: Over diagnosed people with ASD because of doctors negligence
And it hurts people who really have autism. Maybe there is a form of autism thats not a disability but my friend has a son who is nonverbal and cannot go to school his autism is so bad. He will need a caretaker for the rest of his life. That IS a disability.
There is a look of disinformation in the comments. Are people dumber for this video? Or just expressing their own ignorance?
I'm a late diagnosed autistic and I'd prefer to see correct assessments for everyone's benefits being properly aligned for best feasible results.
IQ isn't generally useful as a criteria as allistics have the same IQ range issues without having autistic neurology, IQ and autistic/allistic neurology are orthogonal issues.
As to how "unfair" it is for autistics to get more support, well... Everywhere in the world I'm aware of, autistics have more doors closed than opened to them because of their neurology, not to mention being forced to adapt in a very one-sided way to allistic interaction standards, and being pathologized for having different brain wiring where we don't naturally read/write the same style of communication both verbal and nonverbal, and for having a different perspective and way of processing reality.
It's hard to have a good mental health profile because of the perpetual abuse by allistics via bullying, etc. throughout life. We are targets of those not like us, simply because we're not like others, even if we are not interacting with others in the same vicinity. The best we can hope for to not be such a clear target is masking, for those of us that can, but that fries our brains and in general leads to bad mental health.
Until you've lived the life of being different in that manner, and compare a d contrast that to everyone else, you aren't in a place of understanding what the reality is.
I'd suggest, doc, you get to actually know many of us autistics and ask about more than merely the DSM/etc. definitions and how our lives are lived, so you can have as much empathy as autistic individuals are claimed to not have by allistics.
If you can suffer from Autistic Burnout then that's a very clear indication you're autistic.
I wasn't aware until very recently that's a thing.
It's not enjoyable.
Lots of people get all kinds of burnout.
@@janedoe6704 you think you’re making a valid point here?
You are not.
Autistic burnout is specific to those with that form of neurology (autistic), with far more severe ramifications than other forms of burnout anyone may suffer from that don’t involve drug abuse that causes permanent brain damage.
@@strictnonconformist7369how do you know it is more severe than other forms of burnout? How did you know what other forms of burnout are like? How did you measure "severity of burnout"? Are you sure the "autistic burnout" you observed are autistic burnout while the less severe form of burnout you have observed are "neurotypical burnout"?
@@yucheung5853 if you wish to understand instead if merely attack, I invite you to do research on autistic burnout. I don’t have the time or energy to attempt to teach people that only seek to attack me and waste my time and energy.
Autistic burnout can last indefinitely, and can potentially leave the individual more disabled than they were before, possibly permanently. Not merely “oh, I won’t go back to doing that sort of work again.” but across all aspects of their life.
Lol you know its iffy if there is no objective standard of burnout and someone can just claim they have a burnout thats worse (compared to what) and that it must be autism