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Reply to "1/3 of autistic children outgrow diagnosis"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think doctors tend to dx based on their specialties. [/quote] I agree. I think as kids get older, they are diagnosed based more on presenting emotional difficulties--also due to the fact that the client can articulate more--and so things like anxiety, depression, issues with boundaries, aggression, coping, etc., come out and those fit more with psychiatric diagnoses. It's a shame because the ASD issues get lost, like perspective taking, social skills issues, which need continued therapy or the "psychiatric" issues just become worse, and yet instead the direction of therapy goes to medications and psychotherapy (which is valuable in its own right but should be coupled with continued skill-building and ASD-related supports).[/quote]
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