Azuren said:
Then no, you're just wrong. It's very clearly still listed in 2015's ICD-10 as a disease, and the DSM didn't actually remove it; just rebranded it a Social Communicative Disorder. |
The DSM and ICD are not maintained by the same organization, so it's not a case of one being for diseases and the other being for mental disorders, also rebranding it as Social Communicate Disorder eliminates the association with autism, which well...this is a thread talking specifically about the use of autism. Now, I guess Asperger's does have a definable value then, I was wrong about that, but then again the traits you mention are not unique to autism, there's a reason why we have psychiatrists, you have to have a certain number of the symptoms and be tested in order to ensure that you truly are autistic, so again it goes back to what I've said by just using adjectives that are more specific to the person's behaviour rather than using autistic which is a cop-out.
