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Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude (www.wired.com)

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same thing with ADHD. There are at least two distinct subtypes, but likely more.

[–] Katrisia@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

And including CDS in the next DSM would help a lot. We need to identify people with the CDS profile as the things that work for them are (slightly) different from ADHD's.