Talk:Classic autism

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Autism was copied or moved into Classic autism with this edit on 02:04, 25 June 2022. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Classic autism. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine. Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

The article most recently provided this source for the term "classic autism" as well as some other claims regarding use of terminology (see this version), all of which the source does not appear to support. In fact, it does not even contain the term "classic autism".

I have failed to find a source that shows "classic autism" to be a regularly used term. Google Scholar produces just a little more than 4,000 publications that include the term, some of which are likely to refer to non-syndromic autism, which is also sometimes called "classic autism". Compared to the 75,000 publications that mention "autistic disorder" (the name of the diagnosis in the DSM-IV) and the 68,000 publications that mention "childhood autism" (the name of the diagnosis in the ICD-10), that's minimal. The Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders contains no entry for the term (not even the equivalent of a Wikipedia redirect) and just a handful of mentions, two of which are in quotation marks. While in these few cases the term appears to be consistently used to refer to the condition described in the article all mentions are in entries unrelated to the article's main subject.

Hi @Xurizuri, I saw that you performed the split of this article from autism and that you mentioned lengthy and complicated discussions. Can you (or anyone else reading this) point me to the discussion where this title was picked and/or literature that demonstrate that "classic autism" is a widely used term for the condition described in the article?--TempusTacet (talk) 18:07, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

TempusTacet Oh god it's been so long since I looked at this. Honestly, that wasn't really the main thrust of the argument, so from memory it wasn't discussed in any particular detail. The primary conversation was also split between multiple threads in a truly horrifying way, but they seem to all be in Talk:Autism spectrum/Archive 3 and Talk:Autism spectrum/Archive 4. It also affected and was influenced by conversation on other pages, particularly on the WikiProject (starting from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Autism/Archive 1#Merge request: autism/autism spectrum). Enjoy! If it comes up, my vote is to not use specifically "Kanner autism" because I've never heard that term outside of these articles. --Xurizuri (talk) 07:06, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia isn't awesome, but this section of it can be made better be adding substance from the publications of Autistic Scholars & Social Activists combined. 141.224.33.135 (talk) 02:17, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]