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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ no reason to believe anyone would lie.

Ha ha. This is the interwebz.  People lie for fun. [/quote]

This definitely factors in the number of parents with outlier children on the interent, especially places like DCUM.

However, I think that the is also a higher liklihood of parents with "outlier" children to use the internet to find outher parent with similar children. I would never have found DCUM if I hasn't been searching for things to help my "outlier" child (his "label" is 2E, but his mix of assets and deficits seems to be unusual).   My other DC is also classified as 2E, but in a much more common way- so I have been able to find answers to questions in other ways, plus the schools have had frequent experience with similar students.

Around here there are also many parents that [i]think[/i] their child is an outlier, when they are "run of the mill" smart or athletic or whatever (between the 2nd and 3rd standard deviation).  This reputation has hurt my "outlier" DC as they assume he has his many accommodations because of over aggressive parents and doesn't really need all of them - that is until they actually have him in class. And 1) See that his accommodations don't really take too much time AND 2) see DC in action.  Every year he has "converted" one or more teachers.        
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