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Originally Posted by 33girl
One of the girls who is having this issue with her daughter is a teacher herself with a Masters' degree. Part of the problem is they're in a rural area and the (small) school district, basically, wants to throw her into the learning disabled area, get the extra $$ from the state and be done with it. They don't want to keep working with her or testing her.
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I see. and yep . . . that's a problem in lots of ways.
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Also, I think that the increased awareness of autism has made parents & teachers more easily believe that children have it. Kinda like reading the Merck Manual and then thinking you have some horrid disease because you have one or two of the symptoms.
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It's the new ADHD -- throw a label on it and --
presto -- problem solved.
(And I say that as the dad of a kid diagnosed, by very competent diagnosticians, with both ADHD and Asperger's.)