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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of numbers and facts being randomly thrown around here.

I would want to know with specificity if my child had ADHD (a disorder with medical and behavioral treatments for which there is strong evidence that a large proportion of children can grow out of) and ASD (a disorder with very different treatments that is lifelong generally). I would also want to know with specificity why the doctor did not consider any of the assessments deemed reliable (like ADOS) were not conclusive. If the diagnosis was dual I would expect to know how he found that, with specificity, not just "these kids look the same."[/quote]

God, is this MERLD lady? Research shows that ADHD with ASD traits is less likely to be "grown out of". Many kids do compensate, which is what you are really looking for here, with mild ASD. It is why some kids would "lose" the PDD-NOS order. My kid does not have ASD, but I am so tired of you with our bogeyman ASD attitude. Its not a death sentence. Its a neurological disorder. There are about 100000 things scarier than an ASD diagnosis for a kid. [/quote]

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