Potential High Functioning Autism

[Anonymous]

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I don't find her posts that way at all. She carefully constructs this presentation of his issues, and skips over the parts that make him autistic -- which is why other posters often chime in that he doesn't sound autistic. Also, just because you solve a problem in second grade doesn't mean it's gone forever, particularly with ASD and ADHD. And for someone so "high functioning" he's getting a lot of SpecEd support.

She constantly pushes the false view that ASD is no big deal, and that a simple IEP can solve all of your child's problems, as it did for her son. That is not the experience of any IRL person I know whose child is on the spectrum.

She's talked about his obsessive interests, which include elevators, and him hitting his special needs teacher. I think that's pretty darn honest. She has never said the IEP has magically changed him from a child with ASD to one who does not have it. She has said it has helped him be happy at school which is all we want for our children.
I don't know why we can't all agree that autism is a spectrum and that it has a very different effect on different children. We don't know of any biological markers for the condition so right now all clinicians have to go on is behavior and this child's behavior, from all PP has said, was pretty severe.

Ok, thank you for posting that, because I don't remember seeing any of those posts. But posters shouldn't rely on the SN board's institutional memory. For the newer posters like me, her posts do read "0 problems, then Dx at 4 due to interactions with peers, then 0 problems again."

That poster often keeps those posts separate, so you don't see the whole picture of her child. She is cultivating a certain presentation of her child's issues. Remember, over and over again, she says you would never know her child is classic Asperger's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like there are a lot of Aspie parents posting here!! So much emphasis on a precise diagnosis.

In my experience, a developing child is a moving target. Diagnoses come and go ASD symptoms are so diverse. Professionals seem to want to stick kids in categories when most don't fit.

I also worry that no one here seems to mention biomedical intervention. My child recovered with biomedical treatment in addition to speech, social and other therapies.

Yes, we were told our DC would never recover, ASD is "permanent" blah blah blah. Lies all from doctors and other therapists who dismiss what they don't know.

If you saw my kid, you'd never know DC's history.

Because they are unproven to work. They are expensive. They can be dangerous. And the truth is that your child would have probably been at the same point now without the "biomedical" treatments.

[Anonymous]

OP, who conducted the inconclusive evaluation? Did they tell you what that means?

I'm near one of the best autism research centers in the country and know some of the psychologists there. They either tell you the child meets the criteria for an ASD diagnosis, or he doesn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, who conducted the inconclusive evaluation? Did they tell you what that means?

I'm near one of the best autism research centers in the country and know some of the psychologists there. They either tell you the child meets the criteria for an ASD diagnosis, or he doesn't.

What is that center?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like there are a lot of Aspie parents posting here!! So much emphasis on a precise diagnosis.

In my experience, a developing child is a moving target. Diagnoses come and go ASD symptoms are so diverse. Professionals seem to want to stick kids in categories when most don't fit.

I also worry that no one here seems to mention biomedical intervention. My child recovered with biomedical treatment in addition to speech, social and other therapies.

Yes, we were told our DC would never recover, ASD is "permanent" blah blah blah. Lies all from doctors and other therapists who dismiss what they don't know.

If you saw my kid, you'd never know DC's history.

Because they are unproven to work. They are expensive. They can be dangerous. And the truth is that your child would have probably been at the same point now without the "biomedical" treatments.

If your child recovered from autism via biomedical, then your child was misdiagnosed and had other issues, such as food allergies or another medical condition. You do not recover from autism. You can progress but a form of it will always be there. Or, like my child, it appeared autism but as he got older all the quirks disappeared as it wasn't autism and a language disorder. My child was very different at 2-3-4, than he is now and we did not do biomedical. Its impossible to say if the biomedical worked for your child or it was a smoke screen and your kid would have been fine either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are biomedical treatments?

It covers a wide variety of alternative treatment methods such as special diets, vitamins, dietary supplements and so on. Most doctors and researchers regard the whole field of biomedical treatment for autism as pure quackery.