How intellectually mature is the average HS senior/lifer at Sidwell,Maret,GDS,Cathedral Schools ?

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With such a fervor that he hasn't even heard of the autism epidemic, despite the sharing of the acronym. I think that it was both a lie and an acknowledgment of ignorance and self-centeredness.

Clearly an epidemic with global and regional concentration...neighborhoods in the D.C. area. All her acquaintances are autistics. I guess birds of a feather flock together. Why not create another professional society and pilfer another acronym?

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I had a similar reaction. PP used awfully strong language without knowing anything about that child's situation. Perhaps he was coming down with something. Perhaps he was injured. Perhaps he has an ASD. Perhaps he was just having a bad day and is usually quite self-sufficient. This is a 9 year-old, after all. When you things like "OMG What the FUCK is wrong with a kid like that," it makes me sad.

Poster, please tell us what an ASD has to do with a 9-year-old yelling at a mother. Your remark would be noteworthy indeed. What is the association of an ASD with temper tantrums? I have never heard of that association and I have diagnosed and closed ASDs for the last 20 years!

He was yelling for his mother to get him out of there. I wouldn't even call that a temper tantrum. But, honestly, I am really, really shocked that you have been diagnosing ASDs for the last 20 years (not sure what "closing" them means) and you are unaware of the propensity for kids with ASDs to have tantrums. I have a DC with an ASD and I live in that world, and . . . wow. You've never heard of an association between ASDs and temper tantrums? You've never heard of a child with an ASD yelling at his mother/anyone? Screaming to be taken out of a certain situation? Wow, just wow.

I think the PP has been diagnosing and closing atrial septal defects for 20 years.

I'm the PP who wrote "wow just wow," and when I first read this post I thought it was hysterical, and then i realized PP really was referring to this other ASD (that I had never heard of before today), hence the reference to "closing" them. I will now give him the benefit of the doubt. Or maybe he doesn't actually diagnose and close the other kind of ASD, but was just joking himself. Maybe we're all joking.

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No joke. It's a shame you think all congenital heart surgeons are male. But, this is DCUM after all, despite all the so called bragging "Big 3'" female graduates and their "Big 3" progeny. When did the autistics steal our acronym. Have you heard of intellectual property?

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Anonymous wrote:No joke. It's a shame you think all congenital heart surgeons are male. But, this is DCUM after all, despite all the so called bragging "Big 3'" female graduates and their "Big 3" progeny. When did the autistics steal our acronym. Have you heard of intellectual property?

Oh, I just thought that a mom couldn't be this clueless.

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It's Sybil, damn it.

...let's not forget multiple personalities.

Nope, I'm the poster you called Sybil/Cybil (all I can think of is Moonlighting! Ah, I am so old), and I am not OP. But sympathetic to OP, for sure.

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Sybil's older than Cybil!

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Anonymous wrote:Sybil's older than Cybil!

I'm the Cybil mis-poster who meant "Sybil." ("Sybil," which I copied from other DCUMers, of course refers to OP sock puppeting. Sorry if my guess was wrong but it's hard for me to believe that OP has a poster supporting her various commentaries.)

But I still don't know what ASD means or what others think it means or what people are saying it means.

[Anonymous]

From the world of congential heart disease, an ASD is an atrial septal defect or hole in the dividing partition between to 2 upper chambers of the heart. The garden variety ASD is of the secundum variety. Primum defects and other deficiencies exist between the caval and various pulmonary veins. The typical ASD is not associated with low oxygen content or cyanosis (blue babies). This condition manifested by blue blood crossing into the red circulation (due to the defect) may impair to varying degree neurologic development and hence IQ...even leading to temper tantrums. However, there is no evidence that acyanotic, garden variety ASDs are associated with temper tantrums or yelling at mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the world of congential heart disease, an ASD is an atrial septal defect or hole in the dividing partition between to 2 upper chambers of the heart. The garden variety ASD is of the secundum variety. Primum defects and other deficiencies exist between the caval and various pulmonary veins. The typical ASD is not associated with low oxygen content or cyanosis (blue babies). This condition manifested by blue blood crossing into the red circulation (due to the defect) may impair to varying degree neurologic development and hence IQ...even leading to temper tantrums. However, there is no evidence that acyanotic, garden variety ASDs are associated with temper tantrums or yelling at mom.

Thanks. I see the acronym often on this site. Does it or can it mean something else in the context of kids with special needs?

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Anonymous wrote:From the world of congential heart disease, an ASD is an atrial septal defect or hole in the dividing partition between to 2 upper chambers of the heart. The garden variety ASD is of the secundum variety. Primum defects and other deficiencies exist between the caval and various pulmonary veins. The typical ASD is not associated with low oxygen content or cyanosis (blue babies). This condition manifested by blue blood crossing into the red circulation (due to the defect) may impair to varying degree neurologic development and hence IQ...even leading to temper tantrums. However, there is no evidence that acyanotic, garden variety ASDs are associated with temper tantrums or yelling at mom.

Thanks. I see the acronym often on this site. Does it or can it mean something else in the context of kids with special needs?

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Anonymous wrote:Sybil's older than Cybil!

I'm the Cybil mis-poster who meant "Sybil." ("Sybil," which I copied from other DCUMers, of course refers to OP sock puppeting. Sorry if my guess was wrong but it's hard for me to believe that OP has a poster supporting her various commentaries.)

But I still don't know what ASD means or what others think it means or what people are saying it means.

Autism Spectrum Disorders, which includes autism and aspergers, among other things. I'm no expert, but I think it is common knowledge that they are often linked to temper tantrums.

[Anonymous]

I have no clue what the acronym ASD means to DCUMMIES on this site.

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What you share is VERY interesting. May I ask : where does DH teach ? Myself I think I notice a HUGE change in the kids today too. I think I notice it more than others because I waited until late 30's to have a child. This means that my 60's and 70's era childhood is very different than my DC's. Not having freedom to roam as kids, I suspect is a big contributor to immaturity later. Doubly so, if you have a boy. I saw this played out in stark relief yesterday at a rainy Stoddard soccer game : A 9 year old boy was screaming at his mother "get me out of here,Mom". I guess he was cold, but seriously !!! "get me out of here" What is she a chauffer, a fixer. Put on a damn coat, run around, get back on the field anything....but OMG What the F**K is wrong with a kid like that.

Boy, you are just a model of compassion. I have a 9-y-o boy who would act just like that because he's autistic and sometimes he completely freaks out in those kinds of situations. Actually he is rarely in such situations because I know he can't handle them, but every once in a while they are unavoidable. I'm glad to know you are out there judging me. He also has a great deal of wonderful gifts and, because of all his therapy, is far more tuned in to his emotions than an average boy his age, but if he had been outside yesterday, be would have lost it completely. Yes, he most likely would have been screaming. And he can go to any damn college he wants. He'll probably be ready to start (still living at home) around age 15/16, but he most likely still won't be able to handle cold, wet weather. So next time stop to think the there is something medically "the F**K wrong with a kid like that" and say a little thank you that you don't have to take your kids to lifelong more than once weekly therapy to get your kid to a point where he can actually handle wearing a jacket without screaming at the intense discomfort. Have a lovely Sunday. My 9-y-o is taking a nap as usual because he gets so exhausted from school and therapy that he often naps in addition to his full night of sleep.

I had a similar reaction. PP used awfully strong language without knowing anything about that child's situation. Perhaps he was coming down with something. Perhaps he was injured. Perhaps he has an ASD. Perhaps he was just having a bad day and is usually quite self-sufficient. This is a 9 year-old, after all. When you things like "OMG What the FUCK is wrong with a kid like that," it makes me sad.



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[Anonymous]

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is also called Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). PDD, now how's that acronym for more alphabet soup. Next year, we shall find more "waste paper basket" jargon for this entity.

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Anonymous wrote:ASD = autism spectrum disorder

Try, Acutely Spoiled Disorder