[PEN-L:31549] Re: RE: Re: Re: Autism on the rise

[Charles Jannuzi <b_rieux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim

E-mail discussions often work against coherence
and consistency, so to these problems I plead
guilty.

I think I have been consistent, though in saying,
one reason why we have difficulty at getting to
cause with problems like autism is because we
don't even have clear concepts to start with(but
I'm not claiming we will ever have such clarity).
In this case, I'm quite sure there are all sorts
of disorders, and we are projecting
classificatory order onto them, as usual.

I also think I've been consistent in saying that
some causes could quite well be genetic and
congenital. I wasn't advocating the refrigerator
mother theory--but I do remember a similar one to
explain other problems, such as schizophrenia,
which no doubt is also an array of problems with
the cognitive part of the soma.

You say that psychiatrists don't want to medicate
autistics, but this doesn't exactly agree with
what I've been told. Psychiatrists want their
cut, including business with school districts.
And I also said that often misdiagnosis goes hand
in hand with getting funds and with prescribing
drugs.

C. Jannuzi



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