I have diagnosed three people using the current DSM Criteria, two of them women. I am wondering if the American criteria is biased towards women by itself, or if I should take any diagnosis of women with a grain of salt, or somewhere in between.
I cannot think that the criteria is biased towards women, if anything biased towards men, as women's AS can show itself more subtlely apparently.
How do you go about diagnosing people? Do you do this from a distance, or actually tell them?
Straight up twice, once from afar. Luckily, the one that was indirect was a no brainer, one of the strongest cases I've ever heard of.
you are funny sometimes, subatai. you remind me of a friend of mine. he is spiky on the outside and interesting on the inside. what do you look like on the inside?
becca
I cannot think that the criteria is biased towards women, if anything biased towards men, as women's AS can show itself more subtlely apparently.
How do you go about diagnosing people? Do you do this from a distance, or actually tell them?
I have to agree with Amy here. It is almost impossible for adult women to get a diagnosis of Aspergers or HFA in Australia and it's not unlikely the situation is similar in other countries.