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[quote=Anonymous]Please, please stop banging this kids with ASDs are misdiagnosed drum.  There are far more children harmed by missing out on early diagnoses and early intervention than the other way around.  All this post says is that there are cases where it just isn't clear if the children really did have an ASD and the interventions pushed them outside of the diagnostic criteria or whether they were misdiagnosed.  There is no way to know unless you withhold interventions from a control group and that won't happen.  Better to have the interventions and the early diagnosis.

I think you do some harm by harping on this idea that that kids with ASDs are misdiagnosed.  First, you just reenforce parents' denial.  Second, your reenforce this idea out there that many of who so have kids on the spectrum have to deal with, that we are somehow overreacting.  It just doesn't help.  No one wants to see children misdiagnosed but I am much more concerned about the kids who aren't getting diagnosed at all.

Your obsession with this issue just makes me think you are insecure about your own DC's issues.  Why are you on the SN board if your child doesn't have SN?  How is this supportive for those of us who do?[/quote]

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