Originally Posted by The Jovial One

I understand your anger, Robo. I remember when Limpball was on his tear against Michael J. Fox, and he did the "Parkinson's Wobble" for the delight of his idiot listeners. He got basic facts about the disease wrong, and even when corrected by experts on the disease, he refused to admit that the experts might just know a little bit more about it than he does.

Limpball is a gas bag, Weiner is a psychotic idiot. If you believe there is a Hell, then you have to believe there's an extra hot corner for people like this.

Intelligent people know the truth. And they refuse to dignify this kind of garbage by even listening to it.

Originally Posted by muel

From where I sit it appears that autism is not necessarily overdiagnosed as much as it is not easily defined. I can usually tell after about an hour with a given program participant what the diagnosis in their file will be - I'm usually right. But if you look at the various conditions that are classified as autism, you'll see that some of them have almost nothing in common.

Asperger's is almost the opposite of classic autism, for example. People with Asperger's are totally outgoing and often have inadequately opne personal boundaries, while those with classic autism are usually completely withdrawn and will not initiate or respond to communication with others.

Of course, this just gives an idiot like Savage the opportunity to attack innocent people, which seems to get him off.

Originally Posted by RoboNerdOK

There's a major difference between some and "99%" who are "brats".

Originally Posted by ABoyNamedSue

I'm pretty much thinking that was his personal opinion. Something that he has a right to express. If you don't like it...don't listen to him.

Originally Posted by RoboNerdOK

Then please explain to me how is this out of context:



So you support his statement that only 1% of autism diagnoses are real? So you think my child is just a "brat"? Does that mean you think I'm a lousy father because my child is in the autistic spectrum? Then how do you explain my other child who is as normal as can be?

Savage knew exactly what he was saying, and he is going to take responsibility for it. If you want to be an apologist for this kind of nonsense, go right ahead.

Just don't expect me to have respect for you, because you just burned it.

Originally Posted by KSigMason

Well, I listened to him yesterday and he talked more about it and he is saying most are over diagnosed, but there are those who really have the disease. You must know whether or not you child has autism. I don't know you so I can't say if you're a bad parent. But I won't take back what I said and I support Dr. Savage's statements.

If my parents had listened to doctors, I would have been aborted, but once I was born had the listened to another doctor I would have been diagnosed with autism...turns out I just needed glasses.

I'm not going to lose any sleep over the burnt remnants.