Another example of the negatives of diagnosis can be seen through an Autistic Diagnosis. The article, “Missing and misdiagnosis on the autism spectrum: Potential consequences and implications for practice” by Jones (2016), discusses the issues of missing and misdiagnosing individuals with autisms. In some cases, individuals are diagnosed with other conditions before receiving the diagnosis of autism. In other cases, individuals may have autism and another condition. Unfortunately, most of the time autism can be mistaken for other conditions, which include: learning disabilities, ADHD, semantic pragmatic disorder, other speech and language difficulties and dyslexia (Jones, 2016). One of the faults with diagnosis is that it can be unreliable
