Totally agree with all you said. As far as meds go, any meds that are powerful mind-altering drugs IMHO should fall outside the jurisdiction of GP's for anything other than short term use (I'm good friends with a GP, he's well aware of my opinion on this, and I'm well aware how many of his patients come to him with those "emotional" issues rather than bacterial/viral/physical conditions). Labelling someone "this" or "that" causes them to see themselves that way. The idea that people with Aspergers don't fully comprehend consequences is rubbish. Chopper was diagnosed with "mild autism" and is clearly dyslexic; he was given ETS treatment as a child and look how that approach worked out. Or you have Martin Bryant, who was diagnosed with Aspergers later I think in his teens, and as a result you automatically have people assume that because he has a disorder it makes it more likely that he can be a violent criminal capable of committing the worst massacre by a lone gunman up until that point in history (1996). That belief is so strong that his civil rights were violated, he never got a trial (his lawyer decided his client was guilty, despite his client telling him otherwise). The stigma attached to these things is incredible. I can just imagine what would have happened if there was a trial "your honour, the defendant has asperger's, he is completely incapable of understanding the consequences to his actions". Even the fact that Dyslexia is classified as a learning disability is wrong, IMHO. The human brain contains trillions of connections (some say 1000 trillion), think about the way our eyes work for instance. They're not cameras; they're interactive - and can decide instantaneously (that is before actually sending the "picture" to the part of the brain that sees the image) what the objects its seeing are, and by objects I mean everything from "wall" "plate" "that darn shirt I was looking for" to "dear old aunty lu". The ability to connect written letters/words/paragraphs and their verbal "counterparts" is counterintuitive to begin with, so it's not surprising that a small number of people "can't" do it, it isn't because they have a "learning disability" but rather, frankly, because their brains can't connect language what they hear to what they see.