11-15-2005, 01:02 AM
I think the correlation between non-judgemental psychiatric diagnosis (eg being diagnosed AS rather than SPD/StPD/AvPD etc), is very strong.
Causes can vary but I suspect that it has something to do with value judgements from 'social welfare' professionals and some educationalists.
There is an intermediate step from merely 'bad' to 'autistic', and that is the diffuse and undefined 'Emotionally/Behaviourally Disordered with Learning Difficulties' category, which I presume is what I fell under (1976 - 1984). That type of label was popular in the 1970's and 1980's and it was often pinned on 'psychodynamic' 'primary object relations', which basically boils down to simplistic notions of parental neglact and/or abuse in early infancy; in other words, a 'blame the parents' social judgement, rather than any innate differences within the child in question. Such an 'analysis' looks glaringly stupid, when one considers that I was the middle child out of 7 and none of the others experienced a childhood that was as turbulent and disordered as mine.
There are even so-called Therapeutic Communities, where people have to live in 'social groups', in which they are goaded and prodded into emitting either the emotions and feelings that the 'therapists' have determined they 'must' be feeling, or else giving a reasonable imitation of these 'feelings'.
It is coercive, normalising social control and even though I was sent to such a place because some people in the LEA thought I was highly intelligent, that aspect of my self was shamefully left to stagnate and never received the development that it deserved. This is consistent with the supposedly 'egalitarian' ethos of the Community (an environment in which my own idiosyncracies were condemned and villified, whilst the common-or-garden juvenile delinquencies were accepted as 'normal'). The Therapists were more concerned with the idiotic 'touchy-feely' therapeutic manipulations, in which we had our heads filled with the most absurd pseudo-Freudian claptrap. The enterprise was also quite 'cultish' in many respects, since the situation was presented as being 'the last chance saloon', which meant that if we did not obey the irrational edicts of the therapists, then we would be condemning ourselves to either a lifetime of incarceration in a 'mental hospital' (which I had spent four months in already), or else a lifetime of prison sentences for as-yet uncommitted crimes.
Mind you, this was back in the 1970's and 1980's, so it is perhaps understandable that the 'professionals' understood far less about these matters than they do today.
Sorry about going 'into one' like this, but I thought that filling out the gaps might be useful.
Causes can vary but I suspect that it has something to do with value judgements from 'social welfare' professionals and some educationalists.
There is an intermediate step from merely 'bad' to 'autistic', and that is the diffuse and undefined 'Emotionally/Behaviourally Disordered with Learning Difficulties' category, which I presume is what I fell under (1976 - 1984). That type of label was popular in the 1970's and 1980's and it was often pinned on 'psychodynamic' 'primary object relations', which basically boils down to simplistic notions of parental neglact and/or abuse in early infancy; in other words, a 'blame the parents' social judgement, rather than any innate differences within the child in question. Such an 'analysis' looks glaringly stupid, when one considers that I was the middle child out of 7 and none of the others experienced a childhood that was as turbulent and disordered as mine.
There are even so-called Therapeutic Communities, where people have to live in 'social groups', in which they are goaded and prodded into emitting either the emotions and feelings that the 'therapists' have determined they 'must' be feeling, or else giving a reasonable imitation of these 'feelings'.
It is coercive, normalising social control and even though I was sent to such a place because some people in the LEA thought I was highly intelligent, that aspect of my self was shamefully left to stagnate and never received the development that it deserved. This is consistent with the supposedly 'egalitarian' ethos of the Community (an environment in which my own idiosyncracies were condemned and villified, whilst the common-or-garden juvenile delinquencies were accepted as 'normal'). The Therapists were more concerned with the idiotic 'touchy-feely' therapeutic manipulations, in which we had our heads filled with the most absurd pseudo-Freudian claptrap. The enterprise was also quite 'cultish' in many respects, since the situation was presented as being 'the last chance saloon', which meant that if we did not obey the irrational edicts of the therapists, then we would be condemning ourselves to either a lifetime of incarceration in a 'mental hospital' (which I had spent four months in already), or else a lifetime of prison sentences for as-yet uncommitted crimes.
Mind you, this was back in the 1970's and 1980's, so it is perhaps understandable that the 'professionals' understood far less about these matters than they do today.
Sorry about going 'into one' like this, but I thought that filling out the gaps might be useful.