Scary article on "neurodiversity"

[tcaudilllg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity

[pianosinger]

What's so scary?

[krieger]

it seems to describe the kind of attitude that socionics "trains" people to develop with regard to differences in ways of thinking, i.e. the only thing socionics is good for.

[golden]

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[tcaudilllg]

Most anti-psychiatry types are extremists who are looking for a way out of the box the psychology community is gradually cornering them inside. In the past, they were collaborative and left to their own devices; during postmodernism, they gained ascendency. Now there is an abiding distrust and suspicion of their role in society, particularly due to what has now become a lengthy experience of abused power.

[Brilliand]

Most anti-psychiatry types are extremists who are looking for a way out of the box the psychology community is gradually cornering them inside.

...So are you talking about me? You could just be saying that anti-psychiatry extremists are extremists, which is a tautology, but I'd consider myself an anti-psychiatry non-extremist.

In the past, they were collaborative and left to their own devices; during postmodernism, they gained ascendency. Now there is an abiding distrust and suspicion of their role in society, particularly due to what has now become a lengthy experience of abused power.

Referring to the psychiatrists, right? I've no real quarrel with this part of your post.

[Korpsy Knievel]

Most anti-psychiatry types are extremists who are looking for a way out of the box the psychology community is gradually cornering them inside. In the past, they were collaborative and left to their own devices; during postmodernism, they gained ascendency. Now there is an abiding distrust and suspicion of their role in society, particularly due to what has now become a lengthy experience of abused power.

Shades of Clayton Bigsby.

[Nico1e]

Here is what I don't like about this. Autism and many other mental and physical illnesses are sometimes caused by vaccines, for instance. If people view autism as just a 'normal variation,' then they're not recognizing that it is a bad thing that needs to be prevented from happening.

[tcaudilllg]

Here is what I don't like about this. Autism and many other mental and physical illnesses are sometimes caused by vaccines, for instance. If people view autism as just a 'normal variation,' then they're not recognizing that it is a bad thing that needs to be prevented from happening.

Autism is not caused by vaccines. That was an invention of a sociopath who is now facing jail time.

[The Ineffable]

I agree with the article overall. However I don't think much could change, practically, as the undesirable to the majority will anyway be isolated, one way or anoter. I too think psychiatry is plagued with social prejudices, but that's nothing to worry about, as they'll evolve as anything else.

[Bluenoir]

Here is what I don't like about this. Autism and many other mental and physical illnesses are sometimes caused by vaccines, for instance. If people view autism as just a 'normal variation,' then they're not recognizing that it is a bad thing that needs to be prevented from happening.

The magic of google and wikipedia

Parents may first become aware of autistic symptoms in their child around the time of a routine vaccination. This has led to unsupported theories blaming vaccine "overload", a vaccine preservative or the MMR vaccine for causing autism.[8] The latter theory was supported by litigation-funded study that has since been shown to have been "an elaborate fraud".[70] Although these theories lack convincing scientific evidence and are biologically implausible,[8] parental concern about a potential vaccine link with autism has led to lower rates of childhood immunizations, outbreaks of previously-controlled childhood diseases in some countries, and the preventable deaths of several children.[10][71]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism


For someting even more comprehensive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_autism