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I am 60. In my circle of friends 3 have children with ASD who are now in their late teens. When I was a kid, every one of those kids would have been labeled with the old term "mentally retarded."

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That's because they were misdiagnosing kids with normal IQs and writing them off.  Now we have better diagnosis and give them services.[/quote]

+ 1 and thank goodness they are not doing that any more! [/quote]

In this case, no. These children are intellectually disabled. They have had years of therapy and 
verbal and non verbal IQ tests. The point is the same. Today they are labeled ASD. 50 years ago, they were labeled MR.[/quote]
Huh? Are you saying ASD is the same as intellectual disability?[/quote]

[b]I am saying they are calling everything ASD these days.[/b] You do know that many (most) ASD children have an intellectual disability, right. Not all ASD is high functioning.[/quote]
Umm, no. One in 59 of kids are diagnosed with ASD, but 1 in 6 have some kind of developmental disability, 
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html

So 90% of kids diagnosed with a developmental disability don't have autism.  How is that "everything."[/quote]

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