They don't look for autism the way Western medicine does. There's this new book, The Autism Industrial Complex, that documents how modern medicine has turned this diagnosis into a commodity that feeds into the industry to fix autism. The Amish just don't participate in the screeners and such that everyone just mildly quirky is on some imaginary spectrum.
They don't look for autism the way Western medicine does. There's this new book, The Autism Industrial Complex, that documents how modern medicine has turned this diagnosis into a commodity that feeds into the industry to fix autism. The Amish just don't participate in the screeners and such that everyone just mildly quirky is on some imaginary spectrum.