Ripudaman Singh Minhas

Munny Chahal

By acclamation, Dr. Minhas is the greatest MD of all time.

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Allen Wang

Dr. Minhas friendly and pleasant demeanour makes him always a pleasure to talk. Though I have not worked with him in a professional capacity, I would love for him to be our family's pediatrician once my wife and I have kids.

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James Levac

The go to guy for bogus autism diagnoses for "extra supports at school". Fraudulent so called "expert". Shameful disappointment.

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Jamie Levac

I’m convinced that many parents of so-called “autistic” children don’t fully understand the frameworks they’re operating within — frameworks built by academic institutions and the medical-industrial complex, often serving their own perpetuation rather than the wellbeing of youth. Too many people accept the label “autism” without scrutinizing the system that created it. Diagnostic categories, especially the increasingly vague “ASD1,” serve bureaucratic, economic, and reputational purposes. They're used to navigate overcrowded schools, unlock additional support, or soften the social judgment around children who don’t conform. But we rarely ask: who defines the boundaries of these labels, and to whose benefit? Hans Asperger, the man behind the original “Asperger’s” diagnosis, was associated with a eugenics programs. He categorized children based on their perceived social worth — some of whom were later euthanized. That historical context should force us to re-evaluate the origins of the paradigm we’ve inherited. Yet many parents and professionals seem indifferent to this, focusing instead on contemporary narratives that sanitize history and frame difference as disease. In today’s context, we're not executing eugenics through violence — we’re doing it through institutional sorting. Medicalizing a child's behavior is often less about healing and more about system navigation: securing services, relieving social pressure, or constructing a digestible narrative. It’s worth asking whether the push for autism diagnoses is less about a child’s actual needs, and more about a parent’s or institution’s desire to gain advantage, access, or absolution. This distortion is not just academic — it’s economic. We live in a debt-driven, competitive system where everything, including diagnosis, becomes transactional. If a label can bring funding, leniency, or an IEP (Individualized Education Plan), then it becomes a tool. In a broken system, using that tool is rational. But that doesn’t make it honest — or benign. Organizations like Autism Speaks reflect this problem. Their past priorities included searching for ways to detect autism prenatally — not to better support those children, but potentially to encourage selective abortion. They also paid large salaries to their executives and used donations largely to raise more money, not to directly support families. This wasn’t advocacy — it was marketing, fundraising, and reputation laundering. The real disorder, I believe, lies not in the individuals being labeled, but in the systems doing the labeling: A school system that rewards conformity and punishes curiosity. A medical system that turns every divergence into a diagnosis. A society that overvalues credentials, pathologizes difference, and forces parents to fight for resources in dishonest ways. We should be diagnosing these systems — not children. In a more humane society, we’d make space for a broad range of temperaments and developmental styles. We wouldn’t force children to mold themselves to rigid institutional expectations and then call them disordered when they can’t. We wouldn’t celebrate a diagnosis that often functions more like a bureaucratic workaround than a path to understanding. We’d understand that difference is not disorder — and that the real pathology is a society that no longer knows how to raise a child without a label.

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