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Pp, I know you are a frequent poster, and I am so glad your son is doing well. But your descriptions of your son always confuse everyone and your explaining how extremely well he is doing and advanced and brilliant and social honestly, I think, make all the other parents of special needs kids feel like crap. Your kid sounds very smart and a little quirky. Exercise some of those empathy skills he's learning in social skills to realize that this is not even close to most parents experience and stop bragging. It feels a little braggy. I know your son was diagnosed and I'm not questioning your services but it sucks to be asking s question about a kid with severe needs and have you pop in and be like - well my son with no issues who is amazingly smart and social happens to have Asd ADHD didn't get seen until later because it's so mild and has an amazing iep. Just like, we get it, you're amazing. Stop. But that's just me. [/quote]

Plus 1 million!!!!!!!!!!!

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I have the opposite view. I find this PP's posts very r[b]efreshing, open and honest.[/b] If you're going to point out all the positive things she (or he) has had to say about her son it's also important to bring up the fact that this that this child went through a NIGHTMARISH time a few years ago with horrible behaviors and the school recommending private placement. This is why this child has an IEP with so many hours. She has been very specific about the interventions that worked and the ones that did not and her theories about why. This is a success story about how well a child can do with the right supports and what I get from this is hope.

Please don't be dismissive of her child's challenges until you have been in her shoes. Everyone here has gone through good periods and bad periods and if this PP's child is in a good place now and will continue to be so for the rest of his life I'm really happy for him and happy to read about it on this board.[/quote]

I don't find her posts that way at all. She carefully constructs this presentation of his issues, and skips over the parts that make him autistic -- which is why other posters often chime in that he doesn't sound autistic.  Also, just because you solve a problem in second grade doesn't mean it's gone forever, particularly with ASD and ADHD.  And  for someone so "high functioning" he's getting a lot of SpecEd support.

She constantly pushes the false view that ASD is no big deal, and that a simple IEP can solve all of your child's problems, as it did for her son. That is not the experience of any IRL person I know whose child is on the spectrum.

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