What a strange article. To summarize, a guy is rejecting the current opinion about the autism spectrum, seemingly because they struggle to understand behaviour of their daughter once she entered puberty. Then they read about a specialized personality disorder that seems to fit better in their view, and now they spend their time diagnosing everyone and their dog within their surroundings, including themselves, with schizoid personality disorder.
I have people close to me with actual diagnosed schizoid personality disorder, this disorder is nothing like this person describes it, to the point of being offensive. No wonder why the actual professionals they are talking to so outright dismiss them.
A close relative of mine works for a non-profit in Canada to give families with special-needs children access to resources from the government and other organizations.
She pushes for autism diagnoses constantly, well aware that they are often not applicable, because it's basically the only childhood mental disability that gets significant money and attention. If she didn't, she'd have to kick desperate families with severely disabled children out the door with nothing.
I'm skeptical of the medical opinions in blogs like this where parents have to do their own research because the system is ignoring their actual reality, and the use of autism as a bureaucratic catch-all has obvious negative consequences, but given the broken and twisted medical and social services systems in most Western countries, I don't see how anything can change. It's all a symptom of a much broader failure.
I have people close to me with actual diagnosed schizoid personality disorder, this disorder is nothing like this person describes it, to the point of being offensive. No wonder why the actual professionals they are talking to so outright dismiss them.
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