Reply #53: This isn't about kids with autism, [View All]

[Ilsa]

it's about kids who need help, and parents who seek whatever help they can get for their child's problem and for the family's survival.

The problem is that it is the parents and the doctors who need to address it, not teachers or caregivers or someone who patently declares the drug companies have made it all up. It isn't for me or a teacher or another DU'er to decide which kids need the medication and which don't, and I don't think it is fair for that DU'er to imply that people who go that route are somehow less caring, attentive, or knowledgeable in their parenting. The implication was that we are not raising our children right. It doesn't matter that my child has autism along with ADHD. It was inappropriate to assume I needed "enlightening", IMO.