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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ASD is getting over diagnosed.  It’s a catch all for quirks.  It’s not helpful.  [/quote]

Couldn't agree more, it's OVERUSED AND RIDICULOUS - how is it acceptable now that everything falls under a spectrum, no one kid with ASD looks the same, it's very frustrating as parent, because the label is overused and not well understood, even from present day educators who think kids fall under the same pot. We're in the same boat, with a kid that has some ASD traits but is leaning towards more ADHD, but because he can pay attention and isn't overly hyper, somehow he's more leaning towards ASD. Isn't there something else in between - there is so much gray zone with the spectrum discourse, can't they come up with some better (more accurate) labels?![/quote]

Agree with this too.

it's striking that none of us ever get to see *experts* on ASD.  We get to see therapists and psychologists etc who are experts at providing therapies.  How often do people come on this forum asking about who they can go to for comprehensive case management for their ASD or ADHD kid, only to be told there is no one who is a comprehensive expert. Just people offering therapies, and it's up to the parents to pick what therapies they think will help? This is because even the therapists aren't experts at ASD. They don't really know the nuances. They only know about the proposed treatments that they are experts in.

My hunch is within 30 years, there is a new altogether different diagnosis: neither ADHD nor ASD, but a diagnosis that so many of our boys fall within that looks a little ADHD with social and emotional regulation issues, but looks nothing like what ASD used to look like 15 years ago (ie now level 3 or whatever ASD is). Basically, Aspergers.  As a stand alone diagnosis again. Not ASD spectrum. [/quote]

I’ve often wondered about this as well, too.  Everything being on a spectrum seems often unhelpful.  A psychiatrist told a sibling that our brother was on the “sociopath” spectrum because he wasn’t always good with helping his wife around the house and didn’t bond well with his first kid (he was a surprise and they were just married), although he has a good relationship with his younger son who came along 4 years later.  So now my sibling thinks it is valid to think our brother is a sociopath, since “it’s all a spectrum.”  And, no, he doesn’t know about this.[/quote]

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