Are people with autism faking it?

Of all the repugnant comments I've seen on this board over the years, SigR might have topped them all on this thread.

That douchebag who posted the beheading video wasn't as offensive as your posts in this thread.

 

Congratulations, you are now officially the biggest asshole ever on this board. And that's saying something.

 

SigR, it's almost like you're trying to top yourself.

Welcome to the land we're not allowed to talk about. Say hi to king cranium maximus.

 

I find it funny that "Savage" has a real last name....Wiener

 

FWIW:

Sorry SigR, although I have issues with the work of many parents today and think we've become a pill-happy society, I don't at all agree that most parents go to great lengths to have their children assigned the label of an illness to compensate for any perceived shortcomings in parenting skills.

My wife is a teacher, trained to work with special-ed students. She has dealt with autistic children, some with severe issues and some with minor.

In her experience (nearly two decades) most parents have fought to the death against seeing their kids tagged with such a label. There are many reasons behind their hesitancy. Many seem to feel that if their child is given such a label it reflects negatively on something they did either during the pregnancy or during the first years after birth.

Most parents, even after hearing from trained professionals and seeing the results of tests that suggest strongly a student requires an IEP (individualized educational program), will argue otherwise.

In general, at least for teachers such as my wife and her colleagues, parents dread being told their child has autism or any other disorder.