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Holly (concerned)
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Date Posted: 09:09:54 10/09/07 Tue
Hi Kellie, I am writing you to explain some things and to help you feel better. I just turned 27 on 100707 and I have a nine year old autistic child. You know the saying "it could always be worse" well, sometimes it is hard to feel that way when you feel like the worst things are happening to you. When I was 17 I was date raped and ended up pregnant. I (of course) had him and now, with an angel for a mother, I have overcome alot. I want to let you know that my son is middle to low functioning (just like rainman) and he is the happiest child you could ever meet. What I wanted to tell you is that many of the actions that are considered "red flages", my son never did. I guess what I mean is that just because your daughter flapes her hands DOES NOT mean that she is autistic. My nieces and nephews all did some things that, if their mothers would have pushed hard enough, they too could have been diagnosed with autism. My nephew would bang his head on things, and still does, my niece would flap her hands, but the are both absolutly fine. Also, as a warning to you, I feel that alot of the reason that autism is becoming an "epidimic" is because of overdiagnosing. I feel that many mothers in situations like yours go into a doctors office and, through questions and pointing out things that "might be a sign" push the doctor, who doesn't know alot about autism, to diagnos a child with autism who doesn't have it. Kidd was right when he said that doctors don't know alot about autsim, not many people do, and that is why so many of you are scared of it. If you have questions, by all means ask, but try not to overbear your pediatrician with it because you may get a misdiagnosis that emma kelly has to live with her entire life. Please write me back because, I know that autistic kids are not included in Kidds kids and I don't have enough money to donate, but I would like to help in any other way. I would also love to talk to all of you at the morning show. I hope that you are able to make peace with all of this, and take your own advice, "keep looking up because that's where it all is" have a great day and my thoughts and prayers are with you.
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