> what leads us to treat ASD as an actual single disorder, as opposed to a billion different individual neurological profiles?

We already do treat it as the latter. The medical definition of autism is basically just any neurodevelopmental disorder that isn’t ADHD.

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kulahan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Why don't we treat it as many disorders instead of just calling everything autism?"

"we do, autism is everything that isn't ADHD"

...what? I must be stroking out, but I have no idea what point you're making here...?

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Alex3917 an hour ago | parent [-]

My point is that autism is already treated by the medical system as many disorders and not as a single thing. The reason they all share a common label is for political reasons, where it makes sense to group them together. But the actual medical system does not treat them as having anything in common, let alone as being homogeneous.

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coldtea an hour ago | parent [-]

>But the actual medical system does not treat them as having anything in common, let alone as being homogeneous.

That's not really true. Not to mention the very TFA, and the research that led to papers like it, is based on the opposite.

	▲	Alex3917 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I mean you can literally upload your genetic methylation variants and bloodwork into Gemini and have it one shot a custom treatment plan for you, how much more personalized do you want? Obviously if you want hand holding from the medical system you can pay a psychiatrist or a functional doctor to do the same thing, but at this point the idea that treatment isn't personalized enough is frankly absurd.

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reubn 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What a ridiculous take.