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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regarding the "if they knew this back in the day, then my fill in the blank relative would have been diagnosed,"  I think about this from time to time. Often wonder how lives may have turned out for folks I knew as a kid if there had been early intervention.  I doubt I would say this to a SN parent, but believe me, I definitely think it about kids from my childhood.[/quote]

There's no problem with saying/thinking this.  I think the weirdness for SN parents is that throughout the day and week, we are hit with this message, and then bombarded with the opposite message that autism is constantly overdiagnosed and that there are way too many kids on the spectrum who don't belong there.  It's hard to hear both messages all the time.  There are bits and pieces perhaps of both messages that might make in some context or another make sense, but you can't be told constantly that too many people are "autistic" and too few.  We are not the arbiters of special needs.  We are just parents.[/quote]

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