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 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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[b]She's talked about his obsessive interests, which include elevators, and him hitting his special needs teacher. I think that's pretty darn honest. [/b]She has never said the IEP has magically changed him from a child with ASD to one who does not have it. She has said it has helped him be happy at school which is all we want for our children.
I don't know why we can't all agree that autism is a spectrum and that it has a very different effect on different children. We don't know of any biological markers for the condition so right now all clinicians have to go on is behavior and this child's behavior, from all PP has said, was pretty severe. [/quote]

Ok, thank you for posting that, because I don't remember seeing any of those posts. But posters shouldn't rely on the SN board's institutional memory. For the newer posters like me, her posts do read "0 problems, then Dx at 4 due to interactions with peers, then 0 problems again."[/quote]

That poster often keeps those posts separate, so you don't see the whole picture of her child. She is cultivating a certain presentation of her child's issues. Remember, over and over again, she says you would never know her child is classic Asperger's.[/quote]

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