"autism" was branded under a wide spectrum to include any and every brain defect doctors couldn't accurately identify and pathologize one child may present like they have aspergers and is put on the spectrum, and another child who has some brain damage from birth defects is now non-verbal and has all of the ill-effects that come with that and will also be put on the spectrum an autism diagnosis is purposefully vague and unintentionally meaningless because of it, essentially it means this child is "different" but we don't know exactly why or how
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