Diagnosing a child with autism is usually done when the infant turns two, but using MEG technology, this could be done as early as after one year of existence.
If you don't know what word I'm talking about, the word was "existence." Existence? wouldn't a more natural choice have been "age"? Does anybody in their right mind say "It's my birthday! I've existed this many years!"? to say "existence", to me, tells me what the reporter thinks of kids with autism. they don't live. They don't get older. They exist.
I'm not usually one who thinks people should think more about the words they use than the idea they're trying to get across, but for some reason, this choice of words seemed so beyond wrong that it demanded to be mentioned. It was like the reporter went above and beyond to find an abnormal way to express something that didn't need to be made into something weird.
Thankfully the story was already mostly over, because I couldn't listen to anything else the reporter had to say without seeing it through a lens skewed by anger. Am I weird in thinking this?
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