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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the article and my reaction was "yeah, so?"

The study was on kids who were diagnosed at really young ages, like 2.5 years, in order to get them into early interventions, which of course is currently viewed as the gold standard for addressing ASD. The study found that 7% of these kids were later determined not to have ASD, although they all did have some other issue causing delays.

So again, what's the big deal? We all know that its pretty hard to diagnose at such a young age, so I don't see 7% misdiagnosis rate as surprising or problematic. They all did have issues, so it wasn't as if the diagnosis was completely off. And putting these kids into early interventions probably was not harmful and could very well have been helpful.

I think any of us on this board for awhile know that this is just the way it goes with kids with differences. [/quote]

I think the fact that the children were all diagnosed at 2.5 means that all of the 569 were very clearly autistic.  Except that some of them weren't.  While ADHD may be considered to be on the same spectrum as ASD, anxiety isn't.  And 3 of the "very clearly autistic" or at least very clearly diagnosable 2.5 year olds were not autistic at all.  They were NT.  [/quote]

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