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[quote=Anonymous]Go to five different specialists and you get five different diagnoses...unless your child is very clearly disabled don't force a label on them when they are infants. Jesus, reading this forum drives me nuts - how readily parents seem to want their kids to have some kind of SN, how everything that's 'out of the norm' must immediately be some kind of SN...

Yes, sure, some children DO actually have autism, ADHD and whatnot else. SOME. But people need to stop looking for diseases where there are just different kinds of children with different kinds of needs. The market for therapy and drugs for children is increasing in a scary way every year and parents seem to be oblivious to the fact that maybe their child is fine and some people just want to make money off of them because after all - what will a bit of speech therapy here and a bit of Ritalin there hurt anyone, right?

Does the fact that your child got diagnosed with autism first, then with ADHD without showing signs of autism anymore not make you the least bit suspicious?!?! How about you let them grow a bit and nurture their strengths instead of always looking for a diagnosis for every behavior of your child. This isn't just for the OP, but for everybody else as well. Sorry for the rant, but I see so many children who are developed perfectly normal and then their parents tell me "Oh, yeah she has ADHD." Does not...?! It makes me so sad and mad and sometimes I have to let it out. -.-[/quote]

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