Psychiatry is a pseudo-science when you are admitted to a psych-ward there are no biological or genetic tests given. It is all based on a checklist of subjective symptoms from a scientificically invalid and mathematically unreliable DSM-5. The increase in the autism diagnosis is at the behest of neoliberal capital. It is the pathologizition of shyness : it is no longer sufficient to just shift product in the marketplace one must now do it with a smile and a friendly touch :
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