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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
(And moreover, it's absolutely a thing that people avoid autism evaluations out of fear of stigma. It took me three years to do it for my own kid. Aggressively reacting to the suggestion of a screening is absolutely related to autism stigma. And for those of us with autistic kids ... yes, this is hard to see.)[/quote]

You are just going to have to accept that assuming everyone is doing this and repeatedly hammering your position is not helpful and is contributing to making this forum less useful than it used to be.
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What the real issue with this poster here?  It sounds like you are trying to save people from your experiences, and that's great that you are here to help but how you are going about it is not helpful.

What are you looking for from the rest of us?  It sounds like you had a very difficult experience getting help for your child or you choose to wait and feel bad about it and want to save other families and kids from going through it but being aggressive and attacking other parents and more importantly, attacking their kids is the absolute worst way to go about it.

If you just look at ASD, you may be missing something else.  Kids need compressive medical and developmental evaluations because ASD is a label for people with similar traits based off checklists and observations.  Many of us have done a lot more than discussed on here from vision, hearing and speech evaluations to genetic testing and MRI's/Xrays, etc. and more for rule out as there are other disorders that look like ASD that are not ASD and any good evaluation is going to include all those things, which you never point out.  [/quote]

I never said “It’s only ASD.” you’re projecting your own issues. If you got your kid a full autism evaluation and they said no autism, then that’s the end of the story. But on an anonymous, general forum, when people post asking for help and describing autism symptoms ... people are going to ask or suggest an autism diagnosis. If you act offended by that, then it becomes a matter of your own prejudices.[/quote]

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