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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This story always rang really big red flags for me. They seem overly invested in their child having a really rare condition. [/quote]

I had this impression from the book, which was written by the father; I thought the book was fiction until the very end (found it in an airplane seat pocket and read it during a night flight).  I kept wondering why the parents made the choices they did when confronted with various behavior issues and situations in the book.  [b]They REALLY wanted the diagnosis, and were repeatedly told that their kid was not schizophrenic.[/b]  Her symptoms were not definitive at all.  The parents seemed very, very odd to me.  I was rather shocked when I realized the book was not fiction at all.
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In some cases, people want specific diagnoses because it opens up different options for treatment.  Like in VA, it is almost impossible to get a young person with a primary autism diagnoses into a residential mental health facility.  [/quote]

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