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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a healthcare professional is is alarming how many kids are being diagnosed with ASD who don't actually have it. I agree that from a therapy perspective it can be quite helpful for coverage. But I also believe there is just general over-diagnosis. It has become a catch all when there isn't an obvious answer. [/quote]

People seemed to overlook this comment because it doesn't fit in with their autism narrative, but I agree wholeheartedly. [/quote]

To the healthcare professional: how do you know that the kids don't actually have it? Have you seen their evaluations? How many different settings have you observed them in?

My child's pediatrician doesn't see any of the signs of autism in my child because she doesn't see her with her peers and she only sees her for 15 minutes at a time. Yet I would be furious if she second-guessed the experts.[/quote]

There's a lot of disagreement, even among "experts," as to who qualifies for an autism diagnosis. [/quote]

There's also a lot of disagreement on who constitutes an expert on autism. [/quote]

I have an 19 year old who has been labeled autistic by therapists and the pediatrician. I went along with it, but it really doesn't fit if you try to match symptoms up with the DSM.
We just took DS to a psychiatrist who looked at us like we had two heads. He kept saying ' you haven't taken him to a psychiatrist before?' 
Autism doesn't fit him. That label is all for the money. Autism= advocates who gave lobbied for all kinds of crazy therapies to be covered (hyperbaric oxygen therapy - really?!).
That's fine for some but for our son it really did him no favors - I was just tired of resisting the labels.
Our DS is mostly cognitively disabled which can go along with autism but in this case it's his primary issue and I wish that we had spent more time focusing on his primary issues. [/quote]

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