I am confused about what autism is. Whenever I try to investigate this question I end up coming across long lists of traits and symptoms where various things are unclear to me.
Isn’t that the case with a lot of psychological/psychiatric conditions?
Criteria for a major depressive episode include “5 or more depressive symptoms for ≥ 2 weeks”, and there are 9 depressive symptoms, so you could have 2 individuals diagnosed with a major depressive episode but having only one depressive symptom in common.
Isn’t that the case with a lot of psychological/psychiatric conditions?
Criteria for a major depressive episode include “5 or more depressive symptoms for ≥ 2 weeks”, and there are 9 depressive symptoms, so you could have 2 individuals diagnosed with a major depressive episode but having only one depressive symptom in common.
I get the sense that autism is particularly unclear, but I haven’t looked closely enough at other conditions to be confident in that.