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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I'm honestly baffled by all the people who so vehemently and automatically reject the findings of respected researchers who conducted controlled studies.  To just knee-jerk say "Oh, well, obviously, the findings of the researchers are wrong and some people were just misdiagnosed at the beginning" seems to me to be a condescending and willful disregard for science.  I for one am willing to trust experienced scientific researchers.  If they say a tiny subset can be cured, I believe them.  I sincerely don't understand why others aren't willing to do so.  No one is saying that many kids get cured.  Is is really so outside the realm of the possible that a tiny percentage could be for reasons as yet unknown??  [/quote]

It's a control issue and lack of acceptance. Educated, strong, powerful parents have a hard time accepting that they are essentially powerless to determine the outcomes for their children, beyond throwing them in intensive therapy and hoping for the best.    "I did everything right. If I couldn't cure my kid, then nobody can cure their kid."

It doesn't work that way.  Getting better has a huge luck component to it. That's hard to deal with, if you are a Type A parent. [/quote]
I am not a Type A parent but its still hard.  You spend every day running to therapies that are touted as the best and thousands of dollars a month and honestly, I don't know if any of it helps.  For us, I think it is true luck.  I see benefits in therapy but even if we didn't have these issues, I see the benefits, but for us, it is not the magic solution of fixing.  For severe kids, yes, I can see how it would help more.  Doc's make you feel guilty if you are not in 40 hours of services or we'd pull back more for typical things as that is where we should be now.  But, if we pull out, we lose our insurance funding so we cannot win.  [/quote]

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