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And that, my friends, is a high-functioning autistic child. Seriously, think about it from the schools' perspective. Special Education costs much, much more than regular education. If a little discipline would keep these kids in line, they would do it. Or they would kick them out. When your child doesn't ever speak in words, that is not the same as a miscreant. If you'd like, get rid of the diagnostic labels all together: there is now a record number of children who are completely unable to function in a classroom setting, and must be in a special ed class. And the numbers are not holding steady, they are growing. Quote:
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My best friend's son, who I watched daily for two years and who has been a close part of my life, as my son's best friend, for four years, is autistic and he was in school, undiagnosed, until third grade. Many of his teachers refused to believe he was autistic and not just "weird" because he performs acceptably in class.
He is also off-the-charts brilliant, and extremely intelligent high-functioning autistic children are harder to diagnose because, while doing very poorly for them, they tend to function at a level that's closer to a "normal" child of their age. Highly intelligent high-functioning autistics are finally being recognized and diagnosed, when often they weren't before. Also, I think you should watch who you're accusing of never having lived with an autistic child. My youngest is still in assessment at OHSU, but despite being highly intelligent and doing well in school, she has some clear neurodevelopment issues and a language delay, and has had three-hour screaming fits because it was getting dark and she didn't want it to get dark. Another good one was her hours-long screaming, choking, sobbing meltdown because she wanted me to get all of the water out of the house. |
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That clip wasn't very impressive, simply because I've never had a two-year-old who DIDN'T act like that. I have three.
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That is a peer review of one. Peer review in the field of medical research is done by a panel of peers who are not connected in anyway to the author. I would say that a good measure of what she may be on to is that others cite her book as a source for the stimulus of original research on ideas she puts forth, that is the ultimate recognition of of the general validity of her ideas. Maybe it is to new for that.
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*shrug* I dunno. It's copyright 2007. This thread's given me a massive headache and reminded me why I was trying to stay emotionally detached from it in the first place. I've got other shit to do right now.
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Ok, cool. I enjoyed it. I learn quite a bit from this thread. One of the better in a long time.
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Even my smallest's teacher thought that maybe she just had a hearing problem. She is almost completely silent and very withdrawn when we are not at home. It was after we had her hearing tested, and she went to a language development specialist who said that her development is not delayed enough to be considered abnormal, that we decided to take her to the neurodevelopmental center. She is not "clearly abnormal" unless a context is offered other than "high strung", "spirited", or "difficult". I have those books. I decided to pursue the possibility that there is more to it than that. My older kids acted like that at age two and three, but are very social and outgoing in school... they do very well socially and academically. I don't think there's anything wrong with them at all. Last edited by Tiki; 05-20-2009 at 07:43 PM. |
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Thimerosal containing vaccines were not recalled however, they were used up eventually. Tiki, if you're interested, look up how Dr. Offit voted (FDA advisory committee) on the addition of Rotashield to the childhood schedule. Also look up how he voted on the removal of it after it caused several infant deaths.
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I did a bit of searching but have been unable to find that information other than references on anti-vaccination websites.
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We discussed it with her pediatrician and the next step is finishing the intake process at OHSU and getting her tested at the neurodevelopment center. The pediatrician suspects high-functioning autism. It's up in the air until after the testing at OHSU, other than the fact that she has a very high IQ and a neurodevelopmental delay of some kind. The high IQ helps to "hide" the delay. I suspect strongly that high-functioning, highly-intelligent children are being diagnosed now due to higher awareness and better diagnostics, when they would have slipped through the cracks in the past. Anyway, the only reason I brought it up was that you stated that I have never lived with a high-functioning autistic child. The fact of the matter is, my best friend's son is autistic and I had him after school every day for two years, plus he spends two nights a week here because my son is his best friend, and it is very possible that my youngest daughter is also autistic, so your statement was inaccurate. I can easily see, from my own experience, how these children would have failed to be diagnosed in the past. Greater awareness and more resources mean that they are being diagnosed and helped now, rather than living their lives at half-potential. Last edited by Tiki; 05-20-2009 at 08:26 PM. |
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I have two other friends with high-functioning autistic children... perhaps birds of a feather flock together? But I have never spent much time with their sons.
Oh, and my sister who was recently diagnosed with Asperger's is 45. We grew up together and have always been very close. I feel like I do have a little personal experience with dealing with people who have autism-spectrum disorders to draw from, you know? |
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