@unmind @arcana yeah I mean this comes with the usual caveat that as a schizo Deleuzian I very much don't think psychiatry is valid at all but that being said I wasn't aware that researchers were starting to reevaluate that view. but I also have some opinions about this because I had people telling me for the longest time that I was an autist and I think a lot of that was just because of the overlap in symptoms that I mentioned where unless someone is a really low-functioning schizo or autist, people will just go with autism because it's less stigmatized. this is evidenced by how as you correctly said, autism and schizophrenia used to be considered the same thing until autism was separated off into its own thing, which imo is entirely because autism has the potential to be more useful to modern civilization than schizophrenia.