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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]

Kids get misdiagnosed.  Diagnoising is a bunch of educated guesses looking at behaviors presented.  There is no blood test or other concrete test.  These kids could have a number of things and instead they are all lumped together and it is labeled "autism."  Science is not exact.  Much is still unknown.  Studies just look at those willing to participate and its not even a full view, but usually just a small grouping of people impacted.  True autism cannot be cured.  Kids moving off of autism were probably never autistic in the first place and it was something else that they were able to move past (like speech issues that look like autism).  We have a yearly 45 minute appointment with a developmental ped who refuses to talk to the therapists, the school or any other family.  He spends 5 minutes with my child going over IQ tests that my child (who can spend an hour in therapy no problem) refuses to do as he is not comfortable with the evaluator.  Do I trust those diagnosing like that... absolutely not.  Why don't we go to someone else?  That is all our insurance pays for and with all the private therapies we do, it isn't in the budget and it doesn't matter except to help get services paid for.  Studies are a joke.  They are not exact science.  They are interviews and some exams with a grouping of people and it is their best educated guesses.  Many studies have proven wrong or bias.  When there is real testing then I will agree with why.  We brought up real concerns to the doctor of why and they were all dismissed.[/quote]

If you give kids an IQ test, an ADI-R, and an ADOS, you get a high degree of reliability in ASD diagnosis. These DXs are really stable over time.[/quote]

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