"My diagnosis of autism is the best thing that has happened to me"

For me, the latest study on autism conducted by the Universities of Montreal, Canada, and Copenhagen, Denmark, makes the reading depressing. According to the study, this disorder is diagnosed between 1 and 2% of the western population, which represents a considerable increase over the past 60 years.

The authors of the study warned that autism was so overdiagnosed that in a decade the term could be essentially meaningless. "If this trend continues, the objective difference between people with autism and the general population will disappear in less than 10 years," said Professor Laurent Mottron, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal. "The definition of autism can become too fuzzy to make sense …