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"I just wanted to comment that when I mentioned the quote (not sure if it's Dr. Cunningham's), I knew that this could result in some mixed feelings.  I'm grateful to be part of a group that can discuss such highly emotional topics as this with a respectful and considerate tone.   \n  \nAlthough my dd12 was never diagnosed ASD, I have no doubt that at her worst and prior to proper medical treatment, I could have had her diagnosed with Asperger's.  Due to my professional experience as an SLP, I knew she was not ASD and thus knew to keep looking, keep searching out medical opinions.  ASD is simply a cluster of symptoms that used to have a firm age by which onset needed to occur.  That has softened over time, maybe not by the DSM IV, but in practice physicians and psychologists are throwing that label around quite freely.   \n  \nI wonder if the target audience for the website is those not of new onset?  Dr. Cunningham's 1000 subjects would be more skewed toward chronic, staler cases, don't you think?   I'm only speaking of my own child's experience... that those ASD-like characteristics did not surface until she had been sick for quite some time.  My other dd9, also pandas, was treated much younger, sooner and has never exhibited ASD characteristics.   \n  \nI think we can agree that the mentioning of ASD-like behaviors has its place within the PANS/pandas community as well as those things associated with it like Dr. Cunningham's research and test, but that it needs some context that the quote did not provide and that ASD characteristics are not of slogan prominence. \n"
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