Not sure why you got DVd. I tried to fix this.

You're not going to like my point: Autism isn't real. This is an attempt to clinicalize and pathologize the human experience. Unless you're interested, I'll spare you my opinions about how psychiatry forms its subjects, but when I see that a university has 1600 students enrolled in an autism degree program, I know that a lot of people have a vested interest in churning out diagnoses. ASD rates have continually climbed for 20+ years? Sure. I agree that there is an increasing number of diagnoses. My point is that there are market forces at work, creating a market for ASD goods and services.

Had psychiatry had an opportunity to diagnose Robert Hooke's "ravings" or Isaac Newton's "fits", I'm sure they'd be autistic as well. So too with Tesla, Warhol, and Hughes. "Weird" and "eccentric" have become pathologized. That is a problem.

I think it is also a problem that Monsanto is a ready target. I strongly suspect that the food industry is responsible for the prevalence of lards in America, but that's a tighter correlation. I have no love for Monsanto, but consider why you blamed the food, which is just about the one thing that doctors never investigate. The man who sells you the solution is usually the man who created your problem . Just consider that psychiatry is always "working to overcome the stigma of mental illness" but if they were on Madison Avenue, they would say "working to expand their market".

I'm not trying to minimize your struggles. I don't know if you are referring to yourself or your child, or other relatives. Nor do I know how difficult those struggles are. Your pain may be real. The explanation, conceptualization, and treatment of that pain may not be. At the same time, you cannot know the amount of pain in the lives of others. Potentially, we all face the same amount of pain, but some take a strategy of "covering up", some opt for "treatment", others just complain a lot.