Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ... Date: 27 Jul 2024 18:34:39 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 19 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 66aiNp+MJRXBFh3ofMwRIQ7Oa6JqbNlOSbUYf/YTQpDHkW Cancel-Lock: sha1:3QGBYeOphVCL0hajDTrACOitoI0= sha256:Sd3Tl3j72cOvp8ncclq+ClFQ+HIilWUVpIPfoN615vU= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2669 Rich Ulrich wrote or quoted: >Also typical for the autistic spectrum --he frequently called people >'stupid' and 'liar'. I've never met an autistic person. But I've seen plenty of self-proclaimed psychologists on Usenet diagnosing everyone under the sun! The diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can only be made by qualified professionals who actually know what they're doing and have the right training to spot the signs and symptoms. Usually, the whole process involves clinical observations, interviews, questionnaires, standardized tests, and a differential diagnosis. So yeah, even a qualified pro can't just throw out a diagnosis based on Usenet posts! No, wait, I /did/ have one student in a class once. Either the admin or he himself told me before the course started, "Heads up, autistic!" But honestly, I didn't see any of the behaviors you mentioned in him.