yeah, i think that's the essence of the neurodiversity paradigm i've been talking about.

Medicine got its prestige by being able to diagnose definite problems with definite tests and offer definite treatments with definite results

"definite" tests are extraordinarily the rarity across all medicine. the rest of the body combined is more complex than the brain, and you often need to look at how the rest of the body interacts when you're solving a problem, and sometimes you even need to factor in the brain because stress can cause physical symptoms, everything interacts and you can't just separate one aspect and disproportionately scream at it.

it's simply that we've been studying the rest of the body for a bit of a longer time than we have mental stuff. in the '60s, aspirin was in a similar place as SSRIs are right now.

my conclusion is that science is never a clear thing because it is science. we document what we get in and then what we get out of it. we can experiment to show there's a result, and that doesn't mean we have anywhere close to a complete model of it. there's always pretty uncertain areas to explore, and it's often just better than nothing.

that’s why even the pathological paradigm does not use a binary diagnosis for autism. it’s called autism spectrum disorder.

the article isn’t what the other evidence says. i could find no good sources for the phenomenon it describes. in fact, most evidence points to the opposite:

Often, it is the comorbid conditions that are recognised and the symptoms of ADHD that are missed. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/misdiagnosis-and-missed-diagnosis-of-adult-attentiondeficit-hyperactivity-disorder/FF6646643B2BC02FFE7D20BBB4967950

there are lots of differential diagnosis problems across mental healthcare. i don’t see any reason adhd and anxiety is the disproportionately prevalent one instead of just the one politics are converging on atm. all this reminds me of claims that transgender children overwhelmingly “desist”.

one article

that is one hella sketchy website. compare the dates on the front page. phrases like “the comorbidity reality” and the parentheticals on the differential equations section suggest LLM content farming to me.