Science

This study is a great step forward in treating, and maybe preventing, many disorders, including autism. However, saying autism is a psychiatric disorder is wrong and promotes the idea that people with autism are "crazy:. While people with autism may have a co-occurring mental illness, someone with autism is neurodivergent, not mentally ill. I spent the last 11 years of my career directing a program for young adults with autism and a mental health disorder. Those two conditions are separate. My 28 year old son with autism also has an anxiety disorder, as did most of the young people we served, mostly brought about by having to deal with a society that stigmatizes anything that isn't "normal".