DeeDee...no offence meant whatsoever. I'm a mental health professional (licensed clinical counselor/art therapist), and that was my favorite professor's (clinical psychologist, taught abnormal psych) way of reminding us that diagnosis is art and science combined. It was not meant as a dig against psychology or anti -female. It was our colloquial reminder that people are people first, and that whatever system we apply diagnosticslly will be imperfect. Hence the changes in the upcoming DSM5 that changes specifics like age of symptomatic onset for ADHD, completely revises the previous Axis II personality disorder categories. Asperger's disorder only made its debut in 1994 in the DSM IV. The field of psychology is in a constant flux of what
characterizes a diagnosis versus a normal variant of the human condition.
