This exact same phenomenon applies to almost any mental disorder. And I use the term mental disorder loosely here, as I’m one of the people who doesn’t believe mild cases of autism are even worth diagnosing.
The reason it applies to autism too is that any diagnosis makes you a customer of the medical industry; the customer relationship doesn’t end when you receive a diagnosis, that’s when it starts. They may not be able to sell you autism medicine (yet), but they can sell you all sorts of other medicine and therapy.
So autism diagnosis are bad because they’re trying to hook you on the drug of getting diagnoses and eventually given people medications maybe decades after their diagnosis?
This exact same phenomenon applies to almost any mental disorder. And I use the term mental disorder loosely here, as I’m one of the people who doesn’t believe mild cases of autism are even worth diagnosing.
The reason it applies to autism too is that any diagnosis makes you a customer of the medical industry; the customer relationship doesn’t end when you receive a diagnosis, that’s when it starts. They may not be able to sell you autism medicine (yet), but they can sell you all sorts of other medicine and therapy.
So autism diagnosis are bad because they’re trying to hook you on the drug of getting diagnoses and eventually given people medications maybe decades after their diagnosis?
They can already hook you on xanax, sleeping pills, medical marijuana…
Medical marijuana is prescribed to people with autism in my state, so I don’t give it much longer before they can.