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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
 well, here's what's nails on the chalkboard to me: Trying to claim  other parents are "in denial" and that their child really has autism.
There's a ton of overdiagnosing of autism  on, it's well documented and all over the news these days.  Proof is all these "cured" children after a few years of therapy. There are all kinds of special needs out there not just autism.

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It is rude and insensitive to say that any condition is overdiagnosed as a response to a mother saying her child has that condition!!!

No one is disputing that there is controversy about the exact number of cases of different mental illnesses, which makes perfect sense to me, since experts themselves do not agree on the core identification of most (!) of them, and the relationship and comorbidity between some. Every few years, definitions change. A change in labels does not erase the dysfunction and suffering the child and family is going through. And it does not mean a vulnerable parent has to be undermined by such insidious comments.[/quote]

I agree.  This has nothing to do with OP's post.  If you want to comment on the overdiagnosis of a condition, go ahead.  But that's not the issue here.  In fact, that's the opposite of the issue here.  You come across as heartless and rather cruel.[/quote]

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