Salon publishes and excerpt from Temple Grandin’s “The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum”, saying it “anticipated much of the thinking in the new edition” of the DSM-5.
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“Twenty years from now, I think we’re going to look back on a lot of this diagnostic stuff and say, “That was garbage.” So as I see it, we have a choice. We can wait twenty years and several more editions of the DSM before we start to clean up this mess. Or we can take advantage of the technological resources that are beginning to become available and start phase three right now.”
