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Well, how about not diagnosing your kid with autism just because he's an uncontrollable little bastard, just to justify your bad parenting?(This includes ADD, A

by insuffi 13y ago

Well, how about not diagnosing your kid with autism just because he's an uncontrollable little bastard, just to justify your bad parenting?(This includes ADD, ADHD, ASD). That should bring the stat down. Qualifier: not all obviously, but it has certainly become a way to remove personal responsibility as a parent.

thirsteh 13y ago
Hopefully the CDC is a little more thorough than simply asking parents if their kids are autistic.
salgernon 13y ago
We seriously thought we were bad parents until a doctor we saw in passing said we should have my daughter evaluated This opened up options for medication and therapies that will help keep her from shooting up a daycare someday We hope - her tantrums are so bad the neighbors have called the police That's the worst part of ASD to me, and frankly one of the least talked about
mchanson 13y ago
That is a very ungenerous/unkind position that many folks take when they don't know WTF they are talking about.
- insuffi 13y ago
  Right. Care to share the scientific details of how ASD/ADHD/ADD is classified, since you're such an expert? Abnormalities in a kid do not instantly indicate a disorder. Yet doctors are quick to prescribe adderall to the first person that comes in their office and claims they have "trouble concentrating".
  - indiv0 13y ago
    Overprescription is of course a serious problem in the developed world, but that doesn't mean that doctors are using autism as a catch-all diagnosis. There are specific, medical criteria which need to be met for a diagnosis, and these criteria are outlined in the DSM V [1]. These are the details on how the disorders are classified, since you asked. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Neurodevelopmental_disorders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Neurodevelopmental_disor...
lawtguy 13y ago
This is the classic "blame the parents" explanation (see refrigerator mothers: http://www.autism-watch.org/causes/rm.shtml http://www.autism-watch.org/causes/rm.shtml). It frequently gets the causality backwards: the kids don't act that way because of their parents, rather the parents act that way because of the kids. The vast majority of parents don't want a diagnosis so they can blame it on the disease and ignore their responsibility. They want a diagnosis because they desperate for something, anything to help their child.
- insuffi 13y ago
  If it's so classic, care to explain why the autism rate has risen so much(long term)? If a disease that gets diagnosed based on a spectrum of behavioral cues is on the rise, could you maybe consider that people are just quicker to blame autism?(and cover a larger, milder range of behaviors)
rogert 13y ago
Hah! I wish my autistic kid was merely spoiled and undisciplined. On the contrary like many autistic kids my kid is very quiet, too quiet, in fact doesn't even respond to pretty much anything going on in the area. I envy parents with spoiled kids, at least those kids can express a personality.

by insuffi 13y ago

thirsteh 13y ago

Hopefully the CDC is a little more thorough than simply asking parents if their kids are autistic.

salgernon 13y ago

We seriously thought we were bad parents until a doctor we saw in passing said we should have my daughter evaluated This opened up options for medication and therapies that will help keep her from shooting up a daycare someday We hope - her tantrums are so bad the neighbors have called the police That's the worst part of ASD to me, and frankly one of the least talked about

mchanson 13y ago

That is a very ungenerous/unkind position that many folks take when they don't know WTF they are talking about.

insuffi 13y ago
Right. Care to share the scientific details of how ASD/ADHD/ADD is classified, since you're such an expert? Abnormalities in a kid do not instantly indicate a disorder. Yet doctors are quick to prescribe adderall to the first person that comes in their office and claims they have "trouble concentrating".
- indiv0 13y ago
  Overprescription is of course a serious problem in the developed world, but that doesn't mean that doctors are using autism as a catch-all diagnosis. There are specific, medical criteria which need to be met for a diagnosis, and these criteria are outlined in the DSM V [1]. These are the details on how the disorders are classified, since you asked. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Neurodevelopmental_disorders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Neurodevelopmental_disor...

lawtguy 13y ago

This is the classic "blame the parents" explanation (see refrigerator mothers: http://www.autism-watch.org/causes/rm.shtml http://www.autism-watch.org/causes/rm.shtml). It frequently gets the causality backwards: the kids don't act that way because of their parents, rather the parents act that way because of the kids. The vast majority of parents don't want a diagnosis so they can blame it on the disease and ignore their responsibility. They want a diagnosis because they desperate for something, anything to help their child.

insuffi 13y ago
If it's so classic, care to explain why the autism rate has risen so much(long term)? If a disease that gets diagnosed based on a spectrum of behavioral cues is on the rise, could you maybe consider that people are just quicker to blame autism?(and cover a larger, milder range of behaviors)

rogert 13y ago

Hah! I wish my autistic kid was merely spoiled and undisciplined. On the contrary like many autistic kids my kid is very quiet, too quiet, in fact doesn't even respond to pretty much anything going on in the area. I envy parents with spoiled kids, at least those kids can express a personality.