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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a little tired of this. OP comes on periodically to argue that kids with ASDs don't really have ASDs because her son was misdiagnosed and really has MERLD. I don't doubt that her son was misdiagnosed and really has MERLD but I wish she wold stop her crusade against those of us with kids who really, truly have ASDs. I don't understand why she has to question our diagnosis (and she does and has) Its like telling we're stupid and don't understand.

MERLD parents, can you share information and give each other support without attacking our kids' diagnoses? Thank you.[/quote]

Agree and it's especially annoying when they attack the diagnosis of kids with Asperger's since that is the one type of ASD a kid with MERLD will NEVER be (mis)diagnosed with.  It's like they can't stand the fact that a kid can have ASD and be less impaired so they keep attacking a diagnosis that does not affect them at all.  Like a MERLD diagnosis is so much better than an ASD diagnosis, like this is a contest or something...[/quote]

Can you stop lumping all MERLD parents together with the rigid MERLD parent?  It's not "MERLD parents", it's one or two posters.  [/quote]

Mom with HFA child here who posted before. I also suspect it's just 1 or 2. Can I just say that as annoying as I find the MERLD-ASD bullshit that comes up, I also find it slightly amusing. It's like some pretend play my son would do with wizards and witches and evil spells.

One wizard proclaims "We are MERLDs. Not all of the MERLDS in the WORLD are so prejudice.  Not all of us think you ASDs and you HFAs and You Asperger parents need to take your spawn and put them in a different class because the MERLDS do not belong with them. There are wise and kind MERLDS and there are evil witch MERLDS who suspect all ASDs have a terrible spell cast upon them. One day the ASDs will show the MERLDS all the magical powers they possess and that one evil MERLD parent will be sorry.[/quote]

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