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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again...re-read your comments and the OVER-DIAGNOSIS thing is like nails on chalkboard to me. "Oh these days they say EVERY kid has autism. It's all about making money." Makes me want to scream and flail my arms in the air.

Oh and then some say..."His uncle so and so had similar issues and he's fine." Uncle so and so isn't fine. He struggled through school, he has no self esteem, he can't get along with people, and he has spent a small fortune getting therapy as an adult. My goal is to make life easier for my child and help him be indepedent and happily employed. I want him to have meaningful relationships since I am not going to be around forever. GAH!!![/quote]

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.

It works BOTH ways.

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This poster frequently comes on the SN boards to rail against the diagnoses of children with ASDs.  She is obsessed with it.  As all the other posts on this thread indicate, this is deeply offensive to us.  It does not work both ways.  If we say that our child has been diagnosed with autism by a reputable clinician, the starting point is to agree.  the starting point is not to argue about the diagnosis because you have some fixed idea about "what is going on out there."

I have long believed this poster does have a child with an ASD and is fighting the idea, and trying to take the rest of us down with her.  If I am wrong, and she does not have a child with an AD, than she doesn't belong on the SN boards.[/quote]

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