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[quote=Anonymous]You can't really "confirm" something that's just an observational cluster of signs that someone drew a circle around and labelled. Neuropsych is a very ambiguous field. Disgnoses are based on opinions and interpretations, not concrete physical measurements. 
Psychologists, therapists, and schools districts are saying NVLD is a developmental disorder, and other people are saying their child was diagnosed with NVLD and it's not developmental.

I'm not judging other people's diagnoses, I'm investigating psychologists' disorder menageries. I'm not interested in a politician's kid. Quite the opposite; I'm offended that people are arguing about diagnoses as part of a disgusting political battle over some kid showing a natural expression of emotion for his father.
I'm suspicious of the general psychological and cultural practice of labelling every psychological difference or skill weakness as a disorder and pathologizing it, and that dominating the way we engage with children. (Adults generally get ignored and left to wither.)

But that article mentioned the BS controversy over the politician's kid's behavior, and quickly transitioned to a detailed discussion of NVLD itself, which I had not heard of this in many years of raising and repeatedly getting evaluations for my kid who has a lot of those signs. And I've seen different  psychological diagnoses shift in out of fashion (Asperger's, PDD-NOS), and been involved in therapy and adaptive activities with other kids, and having many friends who are therapists and teachers.

I think the competing and shifting attempts to name every combinatorial cluster of signs is confusing and distracting to parents, therapists, schools, and patients.

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