Jenny McCarthy's son now doesn't have Autism???

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Here's a link to the story. http://digg.com/d31K2GY Let me know what you think.

It's interesting because like many children who were diagnosed with ADHD that had bipolar disorder instead... because that was the diagnosis dujour so seems to be the case here.

Autism was the "fad" at the time of his diagnosis and it seemed to fit... so the doctors went with it.

It'll be interesting to see how many others' diagnoses get reversed because of this.

"of the disease."

I guess it didn't play well with test audiences...

They should start by making sure the differences between Landau-Kleffner syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders are clearly defined. Maybe what they should do is w/ "questionable cases" (can't tell which it is) is do the treatments that work for both conditions (along w/ checking family history) and combining the shared treatments with observation w/o giving a final diagnosis (use something like "temporarily undefinable neurological impairment" for a period of time).