The Rise of Autism by Ginny Russell

The Rise of Autism by Ginny Russell

Author:Ginny Russell [Russell, Ginny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367250812
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00


The function of Johnny’s retrospective ADHD diagnosis is to show it is universal and has always been around. This may be particularly important for ADHD, because until recently, ADHD was a somewhat contested diagnosis in the public gaze, at least in the UK, as it has been a poster child for medicalisation.18–20 This level of scepticism may prompt a defensive reaction from ADHD scientists who feel the subject of their enquiry is threatened. They therefore pick examples to demonstrate the universality, stability and unchanging nature of behaviours that, if seen today, would prompt an ADHD diagnosis. Johnny having ADHD legitimises ADHD as a category. ADHD is a theory that we use, but it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

The same legitimising function sometimes applies to those retroactively claimed as having autism. According to Gernsbacher and his colleagues:21

The phenomenon of autism has existed most likely since the origins of human society. In retrospect, numerous historical figures … fit autism diagnostic criteria but were not so diagnosed in their day.



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