It's refreshing to see a comment like this. My default stance on most topics, even those which I am nominally educated in, is to have no opinion. My rule of thumb is to consciously abstain from having an opinion about a thing unless I know I can authoritatively speak at some length about the subject.
To repurpose a comment in another thread about nuclear fusion: online discussions about autism generally consist of the Wikipedia-educated debating the Youtube-educated. Likewise for topics like ADHD and sociopathy. It would be nice if more people defaulted to, "I'm not really fit to comment" rather than, "I have strong opinions after reading a few pages and talking with friends about this."
It might be that I know enough to know that I know nothing.
I've worked in academia and Neuroscience, have studied Autism for my masters and created technology to teach people about Autism. Have volunteered in an adhd charity, worked around clinicians and neuropsychologists and had countless discussions on the topic of diagnosis.
All I can conclude, is even these guys can't establish the correct way to diagnose and it changes often.
I have no chance. PTSD and Autism are both extremely complex.
