The family’s personal physician said
This is the kind of professional we want to avoid like the plague.
My friend's son has a lot of energy. But so much energy, he is able to run non-stop for 6 hours straight. More like he can't sit still, he is bubbling with energy all the time. He runs and runs and runs while talking without ever stopping.
Do you know what he is? Hyperactive. Do you know what the school pediatrician told his mother? That he's autistic. Those diagnostics are a bazilion miles away from each other. Autistic kids do not run around for 6 hours straight.
The existence of a diagnosis in the medical book does not come from opinion. It comes from empirical evidence. There is much weirder stuff out there.
Do you want to hear my opinion about PANDAS? It's a neural conflict. Those are very diverse and can get really akward.
As I laid down on my bed to sleep, I made some noise and my wife awoke with a jumpscare. She sat up really fast and asked "what happened" and fell back to sleep a few seconds later. She doesn't remember that happened at all, though, because her "consciousness system" hadn't been summoned by whatever mental system alerted her body.
Very interesting, thanks for the feedback @felipejoys!
There's a disease where a person's brain ignores the existence of one side of their body. Some of them undergo such an extreme that they only care about covering, say, their right side in clothes. But if you ask them, they are fully clothed. There's no logic in that, but you can't convice them of it because it's a neural glitch.