One ASD label now covers profoundly impaired, nonverbal people and those with mild social‑communication differences. Creating clear, severity‑based categories could improve statistics, research cohorts, and service eligibility while reducing public confusion over an 'epidemic.'
— Redefining autism categories would change prevalence trends, funding priorities, and how the public interprets causation and policy responses.
Kathleen Stock
2026.03.06
90% relevant
The article echoes and amplifies the call (made by Uta Frith and picked up here) to narrow the autism category back toward its severe, core cases and to exclude later, milder, predominantly female diagnoses—precisely the policy and conceptual shift captured by the existing idea of splitting the spectrum by severity.
BeauHD
2025.10.08
100% relevant
The piece highlights DSM‑5’s 2013 merger of Asperger’s into ASD and Dr. Fombonne’s observation that the share with intellectual disability fell markedly under the broadened diagnosis.
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