Monday 5 November 2012

TTSR Autism "Curse"?



Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, Pages 31-32,  Autism “Curse”?


     I think that the autism spectrum allows doctors to misdiagnose without being at fault.   They use this system that makes room for ‘permissive error’ so they don’t get blamed for the unnecessary treatment of normal children.  If parents of a falsely diagnosed child confronted their doctor after undergoing expensive medical care, what would he say?  My guess is that he would blame the system for his error rather than take responsibility.  In the end, the parents would be overjoyed that there child did not have autism, but there would be no restitution for the thousands of dollars spent on pointless therapy.
     After I did more research on the Autism Spectrum, I found that in all the articles and websites describing how it worked, there was no information about who made it.  Curious, that this information was not easy to find, being that it is considered ‘the way’ to tell if a child is autistic or not.  

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