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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ASD child has a 504 that we obtained before the current MAHA talk of forming a registry of autistic people.  I’m horrified by the possibility that DC’s information will be furnished to the current administration in extraction for school funding. The rhetoric from RFK Jr. especially sounds like eugenics to me.  I get what OP is talking about.  [/quote]

Respectfully you need to distinguish between fears and reality. I was disturbed by the resigstry idea but guess what … my kid’s data is already everywhere. How do you think they do the annual research on autism rates for example? Presumably OP’s kid has a diagnosis- their data is already out there.

The actual threat from the Trump Admin is that cuts to federal funding will lead to reductions in services available by schools - and the gutting of the ED complaints office. But to believe that kids with 504s and IEPs are going to get rounded up and that therefore you won’t get your child services is just … not supported by any facts I am aware of.

OP’s question is really just another variety of a question that we get here often about whether some perceived stigma of a diagnosis or label is negative enough to avoid the diagnosis. Sometimes that question indicates that the child actually doesn’t have anything that big going on and the parent is having cold feet when they think about it. Sometimes it’s a phase in denial. But those of us who have kids for whom NOT getting an IEP was ever an option can tell you that this kind of waffling likely bears little relationship to getting your kids actual needs met. [/quote]

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