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[quote=Anonymous]Here's research on kids who lose their ASD diagnosis later in life.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4838550/

Important points to get:
-  87% of diagnosed kids keep their diagnoses.
- of the 13 per cent who lost the diagnosis, only 24% had it to get services (that is, about 3% of the original sample).
-of the ones who lost their diagnosis, most were said to have ADHD, which can look a lot like ASD, and other than medication, is often treated the same way.
-of the ones who lost their diagnosis, only 4% were NT(that is, about 0.5% of the original sample).

It should also be noted that some diagnoses may be preliminary, but early intervention leads to the best outcomes regardless of diagnosis, so that "the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that pediatric primary care physicians refer children with positive screening tests to receive intervention services for children with ASD before the results of a comprehensive ASD evaluation are known."

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