Symptoms of an autistic patient?

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The discussion revolves around the symptoms of autism, exploring historical perspectives on autism diagnosis and the contributions of key figures in the field. It touches on clinical descriptions, diagnostic criteria, and varying degrees of impairment associated with autism spectrum disorders.

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  • Exploratory, Historical, Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • One participant inquires about the symptoms of an autistic patient.
  • Another participant references Leo Kanner's clinical description of autism from 1956 and mentions the DSM-IV as a source for modern diagnostic criteria.
  • A different participant describes autism spectrum disorders as characterized by varying degrees of impairment in communication skills, social interactions, and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
  • One participant asserts that Hans Asperger was the first to describe autism in 1944, presenting a contrasting view to Kanner's earlier work and highlighting Asperger's more positive perspective on autistic individuals.
  • Another participant challenges the timeline, suggesting that Kanner's work predates Asperger's by a year.
  • A moderator notes the existence of multiple threads on autism and decides to close this thread while directing participants to another thread that contains relevant diagnostic criteria.

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Participants express differing views on the historical timeline of autism descriptions by Kanner and Asperger, indicating a lack of consensus on the precedence of their work. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the implications of these historical perspectives on current understanding of autism symptoms.

Contextual Notes

The discussion includes references to historical documents and diagnostic criteria, but lacks detailed exploration of specific symptoms or contemporary understandings of autism. There are also unresolved questions regarding the accuracy of historical claims and their relevance to current definitions.

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What could be some of the symptoms of an autistic patient?
 
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The first clinical description of autism was written by Leo Kanner:

Kanner L, Eisenberg L (1956). "Early infantile autism 1943–1955". Am J Orthopsychiatry 26: 556–66.

For the modern diagnostic criteria see the DSM-IV
 
The autism spectrum disorders are characterized by varying degrees of impairment in communication skills, social interactions and stereotyped patterns of behavior.

More information here:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/autism/complete-publication.shtml
 
Cincinnatus said:
The first clinical description of autism was written by Leo Kanner:

Kanner L, Eisenberg L (1956). "Early infantile autism 1943–1955". Am J Orthopsychiatry 26: 556–66.

For the modern diagnostic criteria see the DSM-IV


Actually it was Hans Asperger in 1944 with "Autistic psychopathy' in childhood"

Much more decent guy than Kanner, especially as he wrote this below while the Nazi's were killing disabled people:

"We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers."
 
Well they were certainly writing independently of one another, but I thought Kanner was first talking about it in 1943... so one year before Asperger.
 
Since there are now several threads on autism, all basically addressing the same things, I'm going to close this one and leave the one started by jimmysnyder open, since it has links directly to the DSM IV diagnostic criteria. I'm not going to merge the threads because the context would get pretty confusing. I'm just stating this all for the record that there's nothing wrong with this thread other than it would be best to keep all the discussion on autism symptoms confined to a single thread.
 

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