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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Please, please stop banging this kids with ASDs are [b]misdiagnosed[/b] 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. [/quote]

I'm not sure if you're quoting me? (I'm 10:42).  I want to make clear that I'm not making any assertions about correct diagnosis or misdiagnosis. Let's just agree that 100% of kids are correctly diagnosed.

What I am asserting -- and what's in the block quote below -- is that researchers with far more expertise than you or I know that some kids on the margins WILL wind up in the exact same place whether they have 7 years of "early intervention" or not.  There is a "way to know," contrary to what you post above, because researchers look retroactively at sizeable groups of kids who had no treatment whatsoever and compare them to kids who did.

I also feel I should say the obvious, which is that I'm not urging anyone away from therapy, although I realize it sounds that way.  What I AM saying is that, as a parent, if you decide for example that you don't have tens of thousands, even a hundred thousand, to spend on therapy for years on end .... that's OK for a lot of kids.  They won't be worse for the wear, [i]as shown by empirical evidence of large samples of subjects[/i].

Few moms who are down in the weeds and who are choosing otherwise can admit this.

"Children receive intensive treatment when their brains are already undergoing rapid change, making it difficult to sort out its effects from the gains that come with natural development. [u]Studies that track autistic children over time show that some experience significant improvements in IQ and an[b] easing of symptoms without any systematic treatment[/b].[/u]"[/quote]

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