Let’s take a look at your “source,” shall we? Here are the top 10 countries by murder rate:
Honduras
El Salvador
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Venezuela
Belize
Guatemala
Jamaica
Bahamas
Colombia
South Africa
As [even] you can probably see, only one of them is in Africa. Five of the top 10 are in Central or South America. Let’s check out the demographics for the worst of the worst, Honduras:
(bolding mine.) Golly, how can that possibly be? Either those are the hardest-working black murderers in the entire world, or the European descendants of Honduras are being very naughty indeed, despite their superior genes.
NDD, you really are a f’ing idiot. You argument has proceeded to a ridiculous rant now. Why not bring in some space aliens and a cool mothership and anal probing as a end all means of proving your point. I think you’d find more support if you did.
I am a professional. What you have written makes no sense. We do not make distinctions like this between mental illness or mental disorder. We do not exclude disorders from these categories due to their developmental nature.
Also, Autistic Disorder (299.00) is an Axis I Diagnosis, as are all the other Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Asperger’s Disorder, Rett’s Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder and of course PDD NOS).
Axis II Diagnoses are exclusively the personality disorders and mental retardation.
presents a plausible argument that the longer a population has practiced agriculture and urban civilization the lower its crime rate is likely to be. That is why white European and Oriental countries nearly always have lower crime rates than third world countries. The only exceptions seem to be Russia and North Korea.
Race is not the only factor that influences a country’s crime rate. It seems to be the most important.
You yourself just cited a source that demonstrated that accounting for impoverished environmental factors explained the observed differences in academic achievement between African American and White youth.
Let me repeat that for emphasis: You yourself just cited a source that demonstrated that accounting for impoverished environmental factors explained the observed differences in academic achievement between African American and White youth.
Seems to me you do. If the DSM is about mental disorders, and Axis 2 is included in it, but Axis 2 isn’t mental illness but is still mental disorder, that’s a distinction. The book itself makes mental illness (Axis 1) a subset of mental disorder.
I found this:
“the category of disorders under which Autism falls, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, are now coded in a different location in DSM-IV than in its predecessor, DSM-IIIR. It used to be the case that the Pervasive Developmental Disorders were coded on Axis II, the axis that was reserved for long-term, stable disorders with relatively poor prognosis for improvement. Pervasive Developmental Disorders are now coded on Axis I, the axis that is used to diagnose episodic and more transient clinical disorders. The possible implication of this move is the recognition that symptoms of these disorders can vary and possibly improve with intervention whereas the disorders which remain on Axis II, mental retardation and the personality disorders, are typically long-term and often unresponsive to treatment.”
That explains our confusion. It used to be in one place but now it’s in another.
I don’t think it’s fair to call it a mental illness though. That implies that anyone can get it at any time in life. Autism is likely genetic and develops almost exclusively in early childhood. That’s closer to mental retardation than mental illness (both of those terms are kind of vague and out of date anyway).
What this axis change reflects is that the distinctions aren’t so clear, especially given the change above. Autism didn’t change, just the understanding of possible treatments.
I am not a bully, coward, nor a fool, at least when compared to a worthless lump like you. If you had your way, you would bully “Negroes” into work camps or the gallows; you are a coward, because the idea of racial equality obviously terrifies you; and you are a fool, because you tenaciously cling to the hollow bankruptcy of your beliefs and refuse to consider all the ample evidence which would demolish them.
I also note that you refuse to address the substance of my criticism and instead prefer to discuss politeness and such. Yeah, I’m sure any neutral third party would think you won this “debate”. :rolleyes:
We simply don’t make the distinctions you’re talking about. Austism is a mental disorder, and there is no distinction between mental disorder and mental illness. The fact that is has neurological and devevlopmental features describe some differences between autism and other disorders, but not in any meaningful way that will have it excluded from DSM 5.
I don’t think many people, even professionals, would call it a mental “illness” though.
In the real world there is. You’re stuck in your professional perspective. You may be right when you’re at some professional conference, but using your professional terms in the real world is a different issue.