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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]eye contact[/b] early on, such as severe receptive issues.  I never taught my child eye contact or any of the autism "fixes", but it [b]came when he developed social communication and his receptive and expressive came it.[/b]  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]

Yes, this comes when kids on the spectrum gets speech therapy too.

Many kids on the spectrum look "natural."

Some kids get misdiagnosed, but seriously, if your kid is making such strides and your "misdiagnosis" got you the help he needed, so what?  You are way too hung up on a label.

Medical records are private, so a diagnosis isn't shared unless you share it.  Get your kid a full neuropsych evaluation since you're so confident that he's not autistic and has a language disorder.[/quote]

We've done a full evaluation (privately) by someone else who was clear it was a language disorder and not autism.  There were features early on but they are all gone now.  Medical records are not private.  They are all electronic and for everyone to view.  It can only be removed by the doctor who placed it there.   So, if we got to the ER, they see my child has "autism" and its usually the first thing they mention.

[b]Autism cannot be cured.  It also should not be given to everyone, especially high functioning as it minimizes those who truly are[/b].  If it can be cured or outgrown, it was a misdiagnosis.  (just like one mom on this board was told it was a language disorder and it turned out to be autism - it goes both ways).[/quote]

Wow, it's neurological--not VD.  Your argument that it shouldn't be given to "high functioning" people is completely specious.  You realize where the term Aspergers comes from right?  Dr. Aspergers in a desperate plea to keep people with autism out of concentrations camps tried to make a case for the ones with higher functioning.  Shame on you.[/quote]

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