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A diagnosis just makes it slightly more awkward to call kids names or tell them they're doing it wrong.
They liked calling kids names.
It also becomes a problem for people as it means that there is a medical reason for certain behavior. You can't just treat all kids the same.
And I suspect that autism and ADD just happens to be at the forefront of culturally identifying and accepting neurodiversity.
I've always thought of the phrase "to call somebody a name" as weird.
Like, sure, everybody has a name. Where's the problem?