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Why Are Children Losing Their Autism Diagnosis?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arshya-va ... thy-living


If it was just The Autism Speaks survey I would not bother with it but this is backed up by academic studies. There has been another study I don't have time to look up.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/273229.php

We are just beginning to see the real world effects of the widespread perception that the so called High Functioning Autism does not exist or is mostly hype or faked. I know mine is a minority opinion, even most people who fought against the DSM 5 change have come to terms with it or agree with it now. It's just a label they say, just a word. The word that made people feel good about themselves has now been turned into to a negative for a lot of people. It is my belief you will see all so called HFA have the same faked, over hyped meme "Ass burgers" has now because I believe that that is the goal of Autism Speaks and the Insurance companies. Having spent 50+years not knowing who I am because of lack of knowledge I am not at all happy of going back to who I am being completely unrecognized again.

It's noteworthy how the HuffPo article starts off by talking about children losing their diagnosis and then suddenly switches to "people" in general. Is there any evidence that autistic adults lose their diagnosis? I don't think so.

Since Autism Speaks' entire fundraising model is based on fearmongering and talking up an autism epidemic, they have a (not even particularly well) hidden motive in not wanting the number of autism diagnoses to drop. Could it be that in the United States in fact too many children were diagnosed with Asperger's? If so, a reduction of diagnoses will primarily free up much needed support services for those children who really need them. I was diagnosed with Asperger's at age 38 and thus went through school without any support. I'm pretty sure that some children on the spectrum would do better without (too much) support.

Also, some children previously diagnosed with Asperger's may now get the new social communication disorder rather than an autism diagnosis.

i hope children of today dont have to grow up the way i did in the early 80's.bounced from state hospitals to group homes while never knowing what was wrong.

doctors and autistics alike dont know how it was to have aspergers or HFA or NVLD 30 years ago