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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an adult with autism. Please don't mistake "outgrowing" for "learning how to adapt and blend in." A kid who at age 3 does not normally make eye contact can be taught that he needs to. Through intervention, he may finally learn that to get people to stop bugging him, he should look at their eyes. Eye contact will never be his natural inclination, and because of this, he is still autistic despite the fact that he was, for lack of a better word, trained to appear normal.[/quote]

There are several other reasons why kids do not have eye contact early on, such as severe receptive issues.  I never taught my child eye contact or any of the autism "fixes", but it came when he developed social communication and his receptive and expressive came it.  He comfortably looks at people and it is very natural.  Kids can be misdiagnosed.  They can be misdiagnosed as not having autism when they do, which means they go without those services geared toward autism and kids can be misdiagnosed as autism and it can be a language or other issue and the things that look like autism disappear.  Autism is a checklist that is done at one point in time.  There is no medical test so it is not an exact science.  We have done several evaluations.  One said autism at 2, and all the rest have said its all a language disorder and ruled out autism.  But, once you get the autism label it often sticks.  due to the lack of understanding about what autism really is.[/quote]

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