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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean UCSB, right? Santa Barbara, not San Diego?[/quote]
And to further clarify,  he was not a UCSB student; he attended the local community college. [/quote]

I read he was a UCSB student.

I think the issue with diagnosis is that many different disorders are just called autism early on. People later diagnosed with say schizophrenia often displayed some characteristics of ASD early on. ADHD kids also often have social skills issues. Too many different disorders are getting called ASD because they overlap in having social skills deficits.

Re:  "esteemed Kennedy Krieger" article. Keep in mind[b] the folks at Hopkins are VERY conservative about giving an ASD diagnosis and they would rather give 5 different diagnosis than say ASD[/b] unless it presents in a classic way. If Rodgers had been taken to Kennedy Krieger as a child I doubt he would have even gotten an ASD diagnosis, so that article would be irrelevant.[/quote]

As they should be.[/quote]

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