OPINION LETTERS

摘要

I was very disappointed with your article about a brain test to diagnose autism (6 December 2014, p 6). Autism is not a "psychiatric illness". Such a term is grossly offensive to people with autism who are struggling to have it accepted as a different way of thinking, rather than simply a defect. In addition, "illness" is not a word I ever recall hearing in medical descriptions. The study was not about emotions, but sense of self.