Dr. Stanley Goldstein - Author and Psychologist

A recent robust online clinical discussion concerned whether a teenager's proper diagnosis was autism or a subtype of schizophrenia despite the treatment of both conditions being the same: for the therapist to provide such a comfortable experience that the patient will eventually renounce the symptoms which keep them socially isolated and gain social skills. Both conditions reflect what has been termed Elements of a Borderline Psychotic Psychostructural Organization: the weakness of basic ego capacities which develop during the earliest years of life and control thinking, behavior, the sense of who one is, and more.

Autism is vastly diagnosed. With true autism the very young child senses the grave inadequacy of their parenting and tries to function independently. After inevitably failing because of their age and despairing they enter a personal universe to psychologically protect themselves, which is the autism. An Australian study found that when the parents of very young children with autistic features were provided extensive parenting education almost all the children were no longer diagnosable as autistic by the age of four.