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[quote=Anonymous]OP was asking which schools take kids with AS.  I don't know how you ask that question without mentioning AS.  The responses about the Lab school were absolutely appropriate because -- as many of us who have kids with ASDs know -- the Lab school claims not to take kids with ASDs.  I believe its even on their website.  And yet the school is chock full of kids with ASDs.  This is relevant if you, for example, have a child with AS and are wondering if you should send him to the Lab school.  There was absolutely nothing inappropriate about the responses.  Perhaps you would like us to all mention our children's many wonderful qualities and we could all do that at length, but really, if you want to know which school will take your child (and many will not take a child with an ASD) the only way to find out is to just spit it out.  If you ask the question "which school is best for my child who uses a wheelchair?" are you "exhibiting" the fact that your child uses a wheelchair?  Or do you have to somehow soft pedal the fact that your child uses a wheelchair?  Can we not use the proper names for things?

I'm glad you know some super duper professionals with AS.  I do as well.  But statistically most adults with AS, who weren't diagnosed as children and never received the interventions that my DS receives, are not successful, professionally or in life.  I know these folks as well, I am related to them.  It is a cautionary tale.  I am very glad my son has the word for why he is different, and as I said earlier, we don't dwell on it and mostly he doesn't care.  But it is not a secret and I will not perpetuate the sense of shame about it.

I'm sorry i erroneously concluded you were a parent in denial.  I understand now you are just a bystander.  Please understand that those of us who do have children with AS want information, such as about schools, and we're not going to get that information if the word "Aspergers" is treated as a dirty word.
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