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Autism's confusing cousins

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350 points Anon84 | 2 comments | 06 Dec 25 11:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yesitcan ◴[06 Dec 25 13:23 UTC] No.46173163[source]▶
I have all the symptoms listed by the author. I went to get professionally diagnosed and I have… autism AND anxiety AND ADHD surprisedpikachu.jpg
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tiborsaas ◴[06 Dec 25 13:53 UTC] No.46173377[source]▶
It feels like that whatever you seek to get diagnosed with you can get it.
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yesitcan ◴[06 Dec 25 20:13 UTC] No.46176267[source]▶
The real question should be how many false positives does ADOS-2 produce? (The gold standard of autism diagnosis)
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toast0 ◴[06 Dec 25 20:44 UTC] No.46176455[source]▶
How do you measure a true positive? Afaik, we don't have an objective, repeatable method of diagnosis.

If you can't measure a true positive, you can't determine the false positive rate.

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1. soderfoo ◴[06 Dec 25 21:18 UTC] No.46176670[source]▶
I've read that fMRI may be used as an objective diagnostic tool for autism. This was a few years back and I'm not sure how further research panned out.
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2. dns_snek ◴[06 Dec 25 23:54 UTC] No.46177768[source]▶
You've probably read about some differences that show up on a population level (just like there are with ADHD) but it's not a diagnostic tool.