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[quote=Anonymous]To the NLT critic:

You use too broad a brush to tar that forum. I'm on it, and I'm not a Camarata alum nor have I ever "doctor shopped." We did Child Find and KKI and private speech and all concurred: MERLD. True, not every child on Natural Late Talkers will have the same profile. Some will have more (or fewer) behavioral issues than yours, and yes, some of the posts might make you go hmmm. But some will present similarly, and those are the posts you focus on and that's where you find your support. In my case, I have a friendly, cheerful, empathetic child who can't keep up with the language abilities of her peers and gets left behind. It is not a lack of desire - quite the opposite. It is a lack of ability. There are similar parents with similar kids on NLT and I'm glad they're there to share progress stories or ask/answer questions.

To the troll who has spent years telling us MERLD parents that we're in denial and think we're better than her:

Stop invading every MERLD thread to tell me my child is autistic. My child's problem is different than your child's. I also feel anguish and sadness that she isn't NT and has a harder life because of it. She can't get what she desperately wants, and I don't consider her problem "superior" to an autism diagnosis, which is what you seem to abhor -- the idea that we MERLD parents think a MERLD diagnosis is "better."

Different kids. Different problems. Get a new hobby. [/quote]

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