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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a lot fewer kids being diagnosed with MR (mental retardation) now than there were twenty years ago, though.

I grew up with a sib dx'd with MR who today I am 100% sure would be dx'd with ASD. Nobody suggested that diagnosis when he was growing up because ASD meant something different in the 80s when he was a kid. Being able to recite the location of every ATM within 20 miles, repeating phrases heard on TV, making repetitive gestures, having social communication issues, and significant learning disabilities......all of that equaled "We don't know what that is, must be MR"
And then once his IQ tested out of MR range, he had no dx at all, despite significant impairment.[/quote]

I think many people can think of someone like this.  I remember a college debater from Princeton.  He had every metro/subway system in the world memorized and could tell you which line and transfers you needed to take to go from Gung nam to Gimpo airport in Seoul or Park Slope to Bloomingdale's in NYC...  plus he had all the social issues of the typical debate nerd.  Great debater though, very quick on his feet.  He did not have a diagnosis.   This was in the 80ties but I'm pretty sure he would have one now.[/quote]

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