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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^This is exactly the problem. ^[/quote]
Can you be more specific?[/quote]

Sure - here is a summary of the last page:

"When people post asking for help and describing autism symptoms ... people are going to ask or suggest an autism diagnosis"

"It's great you are trying to help others not make the mistakes you made but it would be helpful if you did it in a more positive, helpful and supportive way."

"I raise my story as an example of why it is appropriate to mention autism when a parent asks a question here, in certain cases. Do you think autism should never be suggested?"

"Nobody said you can't mention autism. Nobody. So why do you ask that?"

"I agree with a lot of what you wrote, except for the idea that there needs to be some cone of silence around suggesting autism."

"I see you're more interested in attacking me (and have apparently turned me into an amalgam of all the posters you find offensive) than you are in actually developing useful moderation standards."

"I see you are more interested in muddying the waters than in following the moderation standards from the moderator."

"There is no cone of silence around autism."

Here is an example of a post that would be helpful:

"My DS presented similarly at this age. It took some time to get good advice, but what ended up happening was we went to KKI when he was 5 and had an ADOS and he was diagnosed with autism." No need to get into a battle about anything and you don't need to tell every detail of your story because it becomes less likely that it will resonate with the OP. If the OP wants more info from you, they will ask.
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?? you're confusing the discussion on this thread (which is about when/how autism or other specific diagnoses should be raised) with responses to an OP. I don't disagree at all with what you suggest as a model of a helpful post. But the fight here seems to have devolved into one "side" believing that Jeff's moderation decision is that autism should never be mention in response to an OP raising what PPs consider to be potential signs of autism. I believe that is incorrect. Some PPs are trying to portray a situation where autism can't be raised, which would obviously be absurd (given the 1:59 prevalence of autism! it's going to come up very frequently in this forum.)

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