labeling symptoms

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It's sad that there has to be a naming of groups of symptoms in one way and

that is that with every disorder there seems to be so much diversity of

symptoms and levels of severity. Therefore my son will be labeled say with

ADHD and someone with more involvement is labeled autistic and someone with

yet more involvement is labeled mito, someone older with less involvement in

the earlier yrs is labeled Alzheimer's, etc.

People and Dr.s tend to cling to these labels and want to stop the thinking

process. They close their minds to the possibilities that might help. Like,

hmmmmm, I wonder if this presentation is a milder form of so and so, or more

severe form of such and such. SO they refuse to test or treat certain ways

as that person doesn't fit into this tight little category we've decided is

this particular disorder when really all that was was a grouping of similar

symtptoms to begin with and who knows how exactly correct that particular

description is to start with? S.

Re: transfusions and immunizations

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>>Ruth-

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>>My 25 year old son also had autistic like symtoms when he was young. He

>still has some sensory

>>sensitivities which are worse when he is stressed, but overall they are

>gone. He is no longer compulsive

>>and can now make eye contact some (he has worked hard on this). He was

>never labeled as autistic due to

>>the criteria at the time he was young. It had to include mental impairment

>at that time. I am glad that

>>we just dealt with it and it gradly improved.

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>>Laurie

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>>> Your post just blew my mind! I have never heard of such a thing when

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>>> symptoms just began to dissipate over the years, but it does make

perfect

>>> sense that it was his body's response to the MMR and DPT shots that gave

>him

>>> the symptoms of autism.

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