Sure, there will always be people who don't make the connection. Just like there are people who scale approval of their children based on accomplishments in sp

Sure, there will always be people who don't make the connection. Just like there are people who scale approval of their children based on accomplishments in sports, academics, or whatever. I'm pretty sure that's a minority though. I'm involved in an organization where I interact with lots of ASD families and anecdotally at least there are not many regrets. The best way I know to explain it is this: http://www.our-kids.org/Archives/Holland.html http://www.our-kids.org/Archives/Holland.html