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Asperger's/PDD

Demeter

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3. I read this with horror, and disbelief

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:05 PM

Jan 2012

With a 28 year old daughter diagnosed PDD-NOS, I can assure the experts that she is. like most of her class, grossly disabled, as in will never live independently, has multiple physical health issues due to her genetic programming as well as the neurological ones, and that defining a condition out of existence is the biggest cynical violation of the Hippocratic Oath that I've ever heard of.

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New Definition of Autism May Exclude Many, Study Suggests. [View all] elleng Jan 2012 OP

The Icelandic Medical Association?! KamaAina Jan 2012 #1

I have an Aspie-like son. Never formally diagnosed, but healthcare GreenPartyVoter Jan 2012 #4

Actually, no. KamaAina Jan 2012 #5

Well I think it stinks that they are setting things up that way. Going to be an awful lot GreenPartyVoter Jan 2012 #6

That is just sick! applegrove Jan 2012 #2

I read this with horror, and disbelief Demeter Jan 2012 #3