Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Why is everyone suddenly neurodivergent?" video.

A significant minority of people with the AS diagnosis aren't diagnosable with ASD, so in that case, it's definitely legitimate as the ASD label wouldn't be accurate, nor would social pragmatic communication disorder. Really, the whole thing is a massive mess where there's now a massive hole that gets filled with either no diagnosis at all or schizoid personality disorder even as the autistic wing of the disorder gets ignored and future ICD revisions may yank the diagnosis entirely. In that case, the people with the diagnosis would get either an avoidant personality disorder or schizotypal personality disorder diagnosis, with no path to an autism diagnosis for those that couldn't clearly be diagnosed as schizoid rather than autistic.
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Since the DSM got so screwed up, self-diagnosis may be the only option available for those that would previously been diagnosable. I'm fighting to get an ASD diagnosis because there is no other suitable diagnosis that covers me and without a diagnosis, there's no legal protections for any accommodations I might need and treatment would be restricted to what's available for an anxiety diagnosis or schizoid personality disorder. The irony there being that there's little to no evidences that schizoid personality disorder isn't autism. But when the diagnosis gets yanked for lack of pure schizoids, there's likely to be no provision for those that should have received an autism diagnosis in the first place and the lack of a recognized Sensory Processing Disorder to accompany Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder and ASD creates a massive hole where people need treatment, but probably won't have any access to it either.
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Yes, although it's worth noting that lefties tend not to be strongly left handed the way that righties tend to be strongly right handed.
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You really shouldn't. There's nothing wrong with self-diagnosing, especially with how screwed up the diagnosis is right now. I had that same attitude, and now I regret it because many years later, I hit the point where I could really have used some of the things that come with a formal diagnosis in terms of work and school accommodations and can't get it due to how knackered the diagnosis has gotten.
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This is generally good information, but they didn't fold Asperger's Syndrome into Autism Spectrum Disorder, most people who were diagnosed as AS would have lost their diagnosis entirely if the DSM didn't include a grandfather provision for those with a well-established diagnosis and treatment. In fact 2/3 of those with AS and atypical autism diagnoses would have otherwise lost them as the spectrum was constricted to remove those least able to defend their diagnosis. I'm personally parked in the hole that they created. I'm somewhere between ADHD, ASD, the Cluster A PDs, the Cluster C PDs and Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder where there really isnt' a recognized diagnosis, so I can have severe autistic traits that have set me back a bunch, but there's no diagnosis, so no legal protections and only treatments that are available for anxiety or Schizoid Personality Disorder and that is likely to be removed from the ICD eventually as there are few if any pure schizoids out there which makes it a diagnosis that isn unnecessary. Really, the whole thing is a massive mess just because a few researchers thought there were too many diagnoses being made, even though that always happens with a new diagnosis and it can take some time for the clinicians to adopt a new diagnosis and figure out what it really looks like in the wild. They were studying autism for a full century, but the higher masked versions weren't really even being studied actively until sometime in the '90s and nobody was even researching masking until somewhere around the turn of the millennium.
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