Is autism just the new ADHD?

I'm bookmarking this for interest, the whole article is not long and my mum will probably take an interest. Quoting the best bits.

Is autism just the new ADHD? - SmartPlanet:

"The real lesson here is we need to pay closer attention to individual children, as a society. Each one is unique, with unique strengths and weaknesses. Lumping them into groups, treating them as piles of identical symptom sets, does no one any good.

Autism may indeed be the new ADHD, the label du jour we need to give a kid the attention they deserve."