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[quote=Anonymous]There is a frequent poster who looks for every opportunity to ring the bell of over diagnosis.  She is obsessed with the idea that not only has her child been misdiagnosed (which I don't doubt) but therefore that means all of our children have been misdiagnosed.  Its infuriating because she's obviously not met our children (or, in my case, my brothers and nephew, all clearly with AS).  She thinks we're all pulling some kind of fraud to get services.  Ridiculous because those of us with kids at the higher functioning end of the spectrum have trouble getting services, even with the diagnosis.  Everyone thinks our kids should be little geniuses who don't need supports.

As for the difficulty of diagnosing kids with"a disorder having to do with social functioning" there are criteria that have to be met.  And it really isn't social functioning, its social learning and communication.  Lots of people have trouble with socialization for a lot of reasons.  AS is a global disorder and a very specific disorder.[/quote]

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