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Thanks for taking the time to share. Was a very interesting thing to read.
Speaking of autism, this is in the realm of psychology, which is still in its infancy. The terms and theories are far from stable, so you can expect everything to change within the next century. I’m pretty sure the term autism will eventually be divided into a number of distinct phenomena with overlapping symptoms.
Current psychology doesn’t really have the analysis methods that would allow us to formulate and test more proper theories. Currently psychology is largely based on observations, symptoms and opinions, which isn’t really the kind of foundation you would want for a serious science that makes serious predictions.
As a result, anything you read about psychology should be taken with a grain of salt. It’s a work in progress, so the results are only qualitative at best and completely wrong at worst.
Oh yes lol, I am well aware that psychology is... fairly far from a 'hard', empirically based science.
It is slowly taking baby steps toward that, but uh yeah... as you say, there is a lack of rigorous analysis methods, and definitions are changing all the time.
I remember a psych. telling me that DSM V was gonna be the last one, the final one...
... and then a massive revision for it came out 10 years later, so basically that's Windows 10 is gonna be the last Windows, oops here's Windows 11 / DSM-V-TR (cough DSM-6 cough).
I am glad you concur that 'Autism' is likely to be reconfigured as a kind of family of more distinct, overlappable subclasses...
I have certainly met Autistic people with say, basically 0 impulse control and no capacity for emotional regulation... and while I do have some other 'abnormal' behavioral patterns and ways of thinking in common with those people...
I am not like that, I am, or was called at one point, a 'high functioning autistic'... but that was back when Aspergers was... still a distinct thing.
Ironically, this lack of consistent and coherent classification... well, this bothers me greatly, as I very much like ideas that are consistent and coherent, lol.
Oh well, back to making and modifying video game mods for me, hahaha!