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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup, OP, I am totally with you.  Wish we could get the Aspergers diagnosis back - give it a new name if you must!

We have a kid without an ASD diagnosis.  But outwardly seems super Aspergers.  The whole thing is just so useless now.

Even if we got an ASD diagnosis, I don't understand how that is useful at all - to provide that information to teachers or friends. Because ASD is so meaninglessly broad.

I also recognize the absurd focus on diagnosing basically 1 out of every 10 boys as ASD - essentially, every quicky, socially challenged, math loving boy, of which there's one in every class - is incredibly distracting to real issue of what we think of as traditional autism. Those are the kids who need tremendous help and resources, and research.

I also hate that we've pathologized boys being socially quirky and into math.  Why does that require a diagnosis?? Why isn't that just a personality type? (which incidentally, is the "diagnosis" DS got after a neuropsych. She said sometimes it's okay to just label his social oddities as personality, when they don't otherwise meet the full ASD diagnosis).  [/quote]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I have a 7 year old who makes eye contact, converses just fine, and does well in school but struggles socially because he loves talking about clocks and numbers so much. I don't have a diagnosis for him and don't plan to get one. His kindergarten teacher hinted about ASD but the para in his class privately told me that she thought he was a sweet, regular little boy who was just "his own person". A quirky personality.[/quote]

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