Just a comment about modern autism diagnoses, and it is completely personal and anecdotal, and I acknowledge that.

As a scout leader, I work with a boy who was just diagnosed with Asperger’s. His parents are totally willing to accept the diagnosis, and point out behaviors that are caused by it. They’ve put him on a pain-in-the-butt diet because of it.

To be honest, I have no idea what they are talking about. He just seems like normal boy to me, and I haven’t noticed any of the behaviors I have noticed in other Asperger’s kids.

Twenty years ago, there would have been no diagnosis.