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[quote=Anonymous]I have been making this observation for more than 15 years on this board, and the whole "calling everything ASD" craze has only gotten worse. It's ridiculous. I have several friends whose children have severe, specific genetic disorders but were also labeled as ASD, because that's what got them funding for therapies.  I was called hysterical, wrong, and told I must be autistic myself by posters on the DCUM.

My child got a differential diagnosis of MERLD (when it was in the DSM), auditory processing difficulties and a learning disorder with anxiety to boot from clinicians trained to tell the difference between different disorders. The school just wanted to call everything autism and shove him in a ASD classroom.

My son was never helped by any autism therapies. He was only helped by those who would follow the recommendations of our language consultants and focus on my kid's core disability: his receptive language issues. He is thriving now, doing much better than the school EVER gave him hope of doing. His language didn't hit the low end of  normal range until he was 17! We were told by many school therapists it would never happen.

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