[Pan_Yans Wife]

To me, it sounds like "borrowing trouble", why want the doctors and the pediatricians and the medical hassle?

The parents should be grateful for the children that they have, cognitive defects are not something to wish for.

[Dianna]

To me, it sounds like "borrowing trouble", why want the doctors and the pediatricians and the medical hassle?

Because it absolves them of any responsibility for their own or their children's behavior. They get to see themselves as good parents of good children who have a medical problem.

A friend of mine had a child who was diagnosed as Oppositional. My oldest son has Asperger Syndrome and was in therapy at the time (well before the diagnosis) because he was struggling socially and acting out at school. The friend explained to me all about how the therapist recommended therapy for her and her husband so they could learn how to deal with their oppositional child (who was at home). She expressed much surprise to find out that my husband and I were not in therapy over our son.

I very nicely did not explain that my child was in therapy because my CHILD (his thoughts, assumptions and reactions) was the problem.

[sarasmom]

Because lots of parents want a free ride.
I find it sickening.
I know a mother of truly autistic children.She has worked hard, every day of her adult life, to make sure her sons will be able to function as adults, without her.
I have watched parents drug their normal, pre-school aged children,resort to drugs to make them easier to "handle", so they dont get kicked out of daycare.
It seems way to many highly educated adults ignore normal reality while parenting.
Can we all spell overeducated idiots?