Hi everyone, it's Dr. Niger again.

Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

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Today's topic is one that I've been wanting to do for a while, but I want to do this more

in, I guess, I don't know, I don't say a presentation style, but it's something that I've

seen enough of to warrant, I think, a conversation.

And we're talking about autism today and separating the facts and the myths and this

diagnostic surge because I think there's definitely something happening in psychology, in

psychiatry, in our culture.

And I think if we don't define things clearly, we start to lose sight of the things that we try to protect,

and that's the integrity of diagnoses. And again, this being autism, not the word, not the label,

the actual condition. And I have seen over the last, the actual condition.

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