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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for addressing this.

I live in another part of the country, and this board used to be so helpful.  I do not have the money for a neuropsychological exam for my child.  We live in a rural area where resources are more scarce. (Special schools and group therapies are nonexistant and local practitioners have an outdated view of autism, adhd, etc.)

The two doctors we took my child to see agreed on one thing:  "Treat the symptoms, not just the diagnosis."  So if your child needs speech therapy due to adhd or autism or apraxia or a developmental delay or whatever, you get the child speech therapy.

Bickering online over the diagnosis often derails the OP, who need to understand how subjective this field can be.[/quote]

Well said.[/quote]

Absolutely, there's nothing objective about the DSM like a blood test for diabetes. But at the same time, it's not true that speech therapy, for example, is the same for every condition, so a diagnosis is still important sometimes.  And when someone is actively avoiding a particular diagnosis, that's also it's own issue, as they may also be actively avoiding the resources that have that feared label (autism).  Finally, fringe diagnoses sometimes also have fringe, money-wasting "therapies" attached to them. For better or for worse, getting assigned to a DSM category hooks you in to how the world currently researches and understands your child's set of symptoms. If you bypass that, you potentially miss a lot. [/quote]

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