glowingfish

Personally I agree with you. You may have noticed in my journal about my Middle Brother who lives in a group home. He was diagnosed with autism back in the early '60s, just before I was born in 1962, in fact. And autism as I knew it growing up was very different from what it is seen to be now. My brother is not capable of independent living. He does fine at his group home but needs care and supervision. Now granted, there are plenty of people who are seriously affected by autism who are capable of living on their own and having an independent life, I know some of them too, but it seems now like every little quirk in a personality is diagnosed as autism. I think it makes more sense to say someone has autistic traits, than to say they are fully autistic.