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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG no one WANTS their child to have autism. You people are being absurdly over sensitive. [/quote]
+1 Is an autism diagnosis ever good news?[/quote]

Respectfully, I think you are missing the point.  The point is not whether an autism diagnosis is good news vs. bad news.  The point is that we here on SN see so many posts like this on GP or here where the random or mundane events of an infant or toddler's life are held out to possibly be autism, usually due to a mother's anxiety framework.  First of all, it's both terribly tedious and eyerollingly comic on a certain level  to hear about an infant staring at his hands, or a fan, or not heeding his name once in a while, or having some random and far off event occur, and the mother's shot through the roof anxiety that this could be autism -- to the exclusion of any other special need or developmental problem.  (Pardon me, red flag army, I know you are out there.)

And yes, it is insulting to constantly be held up as as someone's mental meme for "Worst Case Scenario" -- whether or not someone welcomes autism or wants to have a child with autism, persons with disabilities are living full, satisfing, and even fascinating lives.

Finally -- food for thought.  Over on the Health and Medicine board, people who constantly worry minor physical symptoms that are meaningless are instantly labeled hypochondriacs.  If they do this to their children, they are told (rather cruelly) that they have Munchausen's Syndrome.  I'm certainly not going to say that about an anxious young mother like OP, but it seems to me, PP, that women who project autism onto babies are no different than any other hypochondriacs, whether or not anyone WANTS their child to have autism (capital letters yours).[/quote]

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