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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. We get your argument but you don't seem to be getting PP's argument. That child could also easily have been a brilliant NT child without ASD.

You are awfully confident you can arm chair diagnose anyone.

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Like I said, it's a real example for someone who already was diagnosed, I have seen more than once, and also know his mother.  I did not do an armchair diagnosis, but it was pretty easy to see, non-professional that I am.

My point though is that psychiatric diagnoses are real things even if we don't understand all the neurology behind them yet amd our diagnostic tools are not perfect.  There's a common thread running through each diagnosis and the symptom lists are based on that.

There has been a 40-year push to make psychiatric diagnoses more standardized and evidence-based.  This push has largely been successful and we continue to improve.  There is much less subjectivity and better treatments than there used to be.  It's not anywhere near the rigor we can achieve with physical illnesses, but that is no reason to blow off the entire field, which has helped millions of people and saved lives. [/quote]

Very much an arm-chair diagnosis and you may not know all the facts as it is not your child.  The tools are basically check lists and are very subjective. They do not have any true tests or really is even have clarity on what ASD is.  ADHD years ago was used as the every kid has diagnosis, and now ASD is.  Some kids are just off the wall smart.  Many of our kids it is something else and rarely do the evaluators take the time to understand each diagnosis beyond what they read or see and just slap on a label and be done with it to collect their check.  Many kids get misdiagnosed early on.[/quote]
You are essentially arguing that you know more about a kid you never met than his own mother.  [/quote]

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