>>312297>i'm still wondering whether autism is real.There is actual medically verified autism, then there is internet/self diagnosed non-verified autism.
It's sort of like the term retarded. There is legitimate mental retardation, then there is the insult of retarded.
The criteria for a real autism dignosis is actually pretty particular and it's a somewhat long prosess to be medically verified as autism. However some people just look up shit on web-md, or the DSM, check a few boxes that they think feels right, then declare they have a thing without a actual evaluation by a expert that actually knows whats what.
>why wouldn't you instead just describe the actual experience you are having instead of the medical blanket term?Convenience and context. It be like instead of someone laying out every single one of their particular political positions they instead use a label that mostly fits and gets the point across in a single word.
Besides describing in detail how your personal experence of subjective reality is diffrent from someone else's is difficult and requires a huge amount of both self awareness and empathy/understanding of others to give a coherent answer. Something that many people with autism struggle with.
>i don't see good arguments for the existence of the word.The condition objectively exist. Thus it needs some sort of label or name. This is for obvious functional reasons, as everything needs a identifier so that it can be coherently spoken and written about. Especially in the medical field.
>which problem is the term autism solving that could not be solved before?It is a identifier for a observed condition.
Before the term autism was used it was erroneously lumped in with other mental disorders which made treatment and research on it much less effective.
> maybe you are just being fooled by language control mechanism.Don't be stupid. That isn't how anything works. It is a name for something objectively observed, not a magic spell that makes things so by speaking.
It's as stupid as those people who talk about gender being asgined by doctors at birth. No nigger, the doctor is observing sex, which is synomous with gender fuctionally speaking. Word games don't change reality.
>maybe that is what makes you autismSo you really are stupid.
Objective reality exist. Words don't change reality like magic spell. Everything isn't subjective. You can't social construct the condition that is known as autism away by playing word games.
It be like expecting a rose to smell different if you changed it's name. Utterly foolish.
>the intellectual inability to understand when you are being fooled and turned into a pawn to fit some malevolent modern agenda.Nonsense.