The American Psychiatric Association's decision to fold the Aspergers diagnosis into the Autism category will go down as one of the most consequential mistakes in modern history.

Your nonverbal 16 year old son refuses to open his eyes when it's foggy outside and shakes like he's seizing whenever the doorbell rings??? Great. He's now diagnosed with the same condition as the purple-haired college student down the street whose psych diagnosed her with autism because she likes eating raw cookie dough. Fantastic! Everybody jump on in the autism van!

An absolute farce. They need to walk back this decision. Autism should be for the non-functioning and non-verbal. People who literally cannot live without a parent / guardian. Asperger needs to come back for people who can speak but who will never know what it's like to have sex. And there needs to be a new third thing for white women who don't brush their teeth.

Discuss.