The First To Go

Last week, I blogged about a story concerning the DSM changing what would count as a mental disorder. It looks like there is controversy surrounding Autism. I don’t know much about Autism but I definitely would agree that it should be disregarded as a mental disorder. I know there are different levels to this disorders and some autistic people are functioning. According to the piece written by Jill Rubolino Autism is “a medical disorder with many causes, some of them genetic and totally unrelated to a psychiatric diagnosis altogether.

I guess some people could see both sides of why doctors may diagnosis this as a mental condition rather than a medical. But if this is the case then other medical issues such as Down Syndrome should be considered a mental disorder according to what the DSM says is a mental disorder but it is not. As time goes on I think there will be some hell raising taking place over the DSM. I know as boring as it sounds this topic will be very popular soon.