No, the discussion here was about the 5 year olds diagnosed with autism in the study.
The severity of their autism was then argued based on how few of children with autism diagnosed by age 5 were able to live independently - and I directly questioned the validity of these statistics by pointing out the ulterior motives people have for making such a declaration, and how this isn't actually based on subjective opinions and not empirical measurements.
You respond to my criticism by proclaiming that we're talking about severely autistic children who are non-verbal and screaming all the time.
The average age of diagnosis is between 4-5, around half of the current autistic population were diagnosed by 5, most autism diagnosis in the modern day is for "mild autism", even for early diagnosis. Don't forget that the ever loosening autism diagnostic criteria, half of those diagnosed today would have never been diagnosed in 2014, how mild the autism is of who we're talking about is milder than what most people are familiar with in their past experiences with autistic people.
The severity of their autism was then argued based on how few of children with autism diagnosed by age 5 were able to live independently - and I directly questioned the validity of these statistics by pointing out the ulterior motives people have for making such a declaration, and how this isn't actually based on subjective opinions and not empirical measurements.
You respond to my criticism by proclaiming that we're talking about severely autistic children who are non-verbal and screaming all the time.
The average age of diagnosis is between 4-5, around half of the current autistic population were diagnosed by 5, most autism diagnosis in the modern day is for "mild autism", even for early diagnosis. Don't forget that the ever loosening autism diagnostic criteria, half of those diagnosed today would have never been diagnosed in 2014, how mild the autism is of who we're talking about is milder than what most people are familiar with in their past experiences with autistic people.