• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There is no blood test that says you have autism or you don’t. It is a diagnosis based on opinion of results of several behavioral tests. How can a subjective opinion on your behavior be 100% conclusive? Doctors disagree with each other on a certain diagnosis. Sounds like a fuzzy border to me.

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      3 months ago

      It’s essentially a duck test with more data points. The more points you get the more certain it is you have autism. And for diagnosis, there has to be a concrete line how many of those points are required