The Kids Who Beat Autism: New York Times

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you define something as a "set of behaviors of a baby/toddler" that really means you have no idea of the root cause. Or whether everyone who exhibits this has the same problem.

None which means that it can't be cured or grown out of.

But if the behaviors aren't there anymore or does not reach a critical level, they lose the diagnosis which is what happened in the article that this thread is about.

No autistic behaviors = no autism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you define something as a "set of behaviors of a baby/toddler" that really means you have no idea of the root cause. Or whether everyone who exhibits this has the same problem.

None which means that it can't be cured or grown out of.

But if the behaviors aren't there anymore or does not reach a critical level, they lose the diagnosis which is what happened in the article that this thread is about.

No autistic behaviors = no autism.

This is where the spectrum idea comes in handy. Just because you move out of the diagnosis doesn't mean you have no symptoms or any further problems. There are a whole host of problems that go in the Broad Autism Phenotype which are NOT autism, but are related. Kids who lose their DX often (usually?) continue to show some symptoms of language impairment or social skills deficits or preservative interests, just not enough to be diagnosable. If one of the three deficits goes missing, you can lose the diagnosis and still be suffering from pretty noticeable problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you define something as a "set of behaviors of a baby/toddler" that really means you have no idea of the root cause. Or whether everyone who exhibits this has the same problem.

None which means that it can't be cured or grown out of.

But if the behaviors aren't there anymore or does not reach a critical level, they lose the diagnosis which is what happened in the article that this thread is about.

No autistic behaviors = no autism.

This is where the spectrum idea comes in handy. Just because you move out of the diagnosis doesn't mean you have no symptoms or any further problems. There are a whole host of problems that go in the Broad Autism Phenotype which are NOT autism, but are related. Kids who lose their DX often (usually?) continue to show some symptoms of language impairment or social skills deficits or preservative interests, just not enough to be diagnosable. If one of the three deficits goes missing, you can lose the diagnosis and still be suffering from pretty noticeable problems.

If they have a language impairment it is a speech diagnosis, not autism and they were misdiagnosed in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you define something as a "set of behaviors of a baby/toddler" that really means you have no idea of the root cause. Or whether everyone who exhibits this has the same problem.

None which means that it can't be cured or grown out of.

But if the behaviors aren't there anymore or does not reach a critical level, they lose the diagnosis which is what happened in the article that this thread is about.

No autistic behaviors = no autism.

This is where the spectrum idea comes in handy. Just because you move out of the diagnosis doesn't mean you have no symptoms or any further problems. There are a whole host of problems that go in the Broad Autism Phenotype which are NOT autism, but are related. Kids who lose their DX often (usually?) continue to show some symptoms of language impairment or social skills deficits or preservative interests, just not enough to be diagnosable. If one of the three deficits goes missing, you can lose the diagnosis and still be suffering from pretty noticeable problems.

People with acne also have problems, that doesn't mean they are autistic. In fact, most people have som problems.

And it is not true, if you read the article, that not longer autistic kids have autistic symptoms in greatly atenuated form (which in itself would mean they no longer have it). They didn't just move down the spectrum, as you are imaging (your idea of a specturm is also incorrect). At the very least you could perhaps read the article under discussion.