Ardenonia

You write the best headlines and ledes! YOUR brain is always on!

I found the article (and thank you very much, Dr K, for sending it) thought provoking. Being a Type II diabetic (granted, a very specific, very well defined condition with no gradations or ambiguity) I could also see the Asperger's community's sense of impending loss from the propsed changes to the DSM, not that I necessarily agree with the premises behind that loss.

I'm still not sure, however, what the changes really would mean for the broad range of people who somehow don't quite fit in, and whose ways of not fitting in fall on this spectrum (itself a misleading metaphor, I think; spectrum implies an underlying 1-dimensional continuum, which does not seem to be the case). For the sweet boy whose brain is ALWAYS, always on, and who makes such quantum leaps in intellect and imagination (an apt metaphor, I believe), I'm not sure the changes matter at all, and I'm not sure that the diagnosis under any version of the DSM is even valid.

Being a Type I diabetic who recieved Fs in tyoping class...

Whew, glad it's you, B. For a minute there I wondered if some weirdo type II diabetic had stumbled across my blog. That would truly be disturbing given the hyperbolic praise you'd just showered upon me ;-)