First Person: Asperger’s is a label worth keeping
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 20:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Plans by the American Psychiatric Assn. to drop it in favor of a more generic autism diagnosis ignores the differences between the condition and its more problematic counterpart. If current plans hold, my 16-year-old son will turn autistic about the time he's old enough to vote. To my mind — and to his — his newfound autism won't be a big deal. He'll...