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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I had a similar reaction. PP used awfully strong language without knowing anything about that child's situation. Perhaps he was coming down with something. Perhaps he was injured. [b]Perhaps he has an ASD.[/b] Perhaps he was just having a bad day and is usually quite self-sufficient. This is a 9 year-old, after all. When you things like "OMG What the FUCK is wrong with a kid like that," it makes me sad. [/quote]

Poster, please tell us what an ASD has to do with a 9-year-old yelling at a mother.  Your remark would be noteworthy indeed.  What is the association of an ASD with temper tantrums?  I have never heard of that association and I have diagnosed and closed ASDs for the last 20 years![/quote]

He was yelling for his mother to get him out of there.  I wouldn't even call that a temper tantrum.  But, honestly, I am really, really shocked that you have been diagnosing ASDs for the last 20 years (not sure what "closing" them means) and you are unaware of the propensity for kids with ASDs to have tantrums.  I have a DC with an ASD and I live in that world, and . . . wow.  You've never heard of an association between ASDs and temper tantrums?  You've never heard of a child with an ASD yelling at his mother/anyone?  Screaming to be taken out of a certain situation?  Wow, just wow.[/quote]

I think the PP has been diagnosing and closing atrial septal defects for 20 years.[/quote]

With such a fervor that he hasn't even heard of the autism epidemic, despite the sharing of the acronym.  I think that it was both a lie and an acknowledgment of ignorance and self-centeredness.[/quote]

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