Talk:Autism spectrum

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[edit] Renamed from "Autistic spectrum"

I renamed this article from Autistic spectrum to Autism spectrum. To see the previous discussion for this article, please see Talk:Autistic spectrum. To see why it was renamed, please see Talk:Autistic spectrum #Rename to "Autism spectrum". Eubulides 15:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] de:autismus

The german autism article discusses autistic disorder, asperger's syndrome and atypical autism in one article and it mentions the autism spectrum as the concept of a continuum. They do have an additional, yet short, article on 'Early infantile autism'. I think this article can link to de:Autismus. --Fenke 18:38, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PDD

I noticed there's both this ASD page and a PDD (Pervasive developmental disorder) page. Both definitions are mainly the total of Autism, Asperger's, Rett, CDD and PPD-NOS. So, is there a difference between ASD and PDD, and if not, should the pages be merged? --Daraku no Tenshi (talk) 00:06, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Looking again I noticed the slight difference that ASD is also mentioned for people who only have autism-related traits rather than 'complete' autism... still I believe that's a rather little difference. Inter-linking the two pages might be a good option? --Daraku no Tenshi (talk) 00:06, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

PDD and ASD are often used to refer to the same subset of diagnosis. The pages could most likely be merged. The next DSM will most likely define which of the terms will survive so to clear up this confusing issue.

[edit] Schools for autistic people

I noticed that autistic people, such as myself, tend to not do well in public schools because of the usually-arbitrary rules that can make an autistic break down. So, in that event, a school for autistic children was developed in Pennsylvania recently. I heard about it on the news one day. Angie Y. (talk) 01:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] removed original research

I removed the inforamtion from a paragraph that does not appear in the source that was cited.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.98.54 (talk)

[edit] Random

"Autism is intentional, whoever is actually in charge is in the process of destroying the naturalness of the human race. They gave everyone ADD, and some people took it much harder."


This is why wikipedia is regarded as a joke, at best, and a cancer, at worst. Shame... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.186.115 (talk) 00:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism is certainly a problem with Wikipedia. That particular vandalism was reverted within half an hour; the article had been stable for over three days before that, so you just happened to hit a small bad window. Next time, please feel free to fix vandalism yourself, if you encounter it; just visit the article history and hit the "undo" button; please see Help:Reverting for more info. Eubulides (talk) 01:15, 10 May 2008 (UTC)