[mainestategop]

Any of you folks have a kid who gets labeled with this crap take him/her out of school now! The schools WILL destroy your kid and you with them.

Also it might be good to freep the hospitals that Nate and Kyle went to.

FAIRVIEW DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER this is where Nate was,

Fairview Developmental Center is one of five state-operated developmental centers operated by the Department of Developmental Services. Fairview is a multi-service residential facility licensed by the California Department of Public Health to provide acute, skilled, and intermediate care to individuals with developmental disabilities who need 24-hour health care supervision, a structured environment, and a habilitation program not currently available in their home community. Services include training in daily living, vocational, leisure, academic, communication, mobility, socialization, and community skills. Services are provided both on campus and in community settings.

HISTORY: Fairview Developmental Center is the newest of the state's five developmental centers officially opening on January 5, 1959. It is located in Costa Mesa, California, a city that is the cultural and commercial center of Orange County. Originally occupying 752 acres, Fairview had an initial bed capacity of 2,622 and was intended to house some 4,125 residents. The actual population peaked in 1967 at 2,700 and much of the original land was transferred in 1979 to the city of Costa Mesa. The population on May 27, 2009 was 493. (Population Trends)

Here is the hospital that Kyle was under involuntary outpatient treatment by his abusive father. I happen to be good friends with him by the way. Acadia hospital. Not surprisingly in Maine the way communism should be!

Acadia Hospital

The primary mission of The Acadia Hospital is the provision of both hospital-based and community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment services to the people of Maine. Reflecting the caring nature of its mission, The Acadia Hospital is committed to providing quality services which foster dignity and a positive environment for children, adolescents, and adults with mental health and chemical dependency problems and to advocating for their mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

The services of The Acadia Hospital are responsive to individual needs and must be high quality, cost-effective, and accessible, achieving a balance between community needs and available resources. The Acadia Hospital shall seek to continually improve services by promoting education of patients, staff, students, families, and the general public in matters of mental health and substance abuse. The Acadia Hospital encourages non-patient financed clinical and non-clinical research within guidelines approved by the Board of Directors.

As part of the regional network of Eastern Maine Healthcare, the mission of The Acadia Hospital shall be at all times consistent with and supportive of the goals of Eastern Maine Healthcare.

[taxcontrol]

For those with children with Asbergers, the answer is not to coddle but to push. Coddleing under the public school system produced a situation where my child was “managing” a 30 F. Pushing my child and yes, lots of tears and fights and stress has her now making Bs in Saxon pre-Algebra.

But it required us taking out children out of public school, sending them to private schools and pushing HARD.

[mainestategop]

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[Kansas58]

Aspergers is REAL, it was not “invented” it was discovered and researched.

Now, misdiagnosis is always a problem, but the author, here sounds like a Scientologist who hates Psychology and Psychiatry.

[bamahead]

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[COBOL2Java]

Asperger's disorder was first invented by a German doctor named Hans Asperger. (the disorder was named after him.)

I would've been pissed if my last name was 'Asberger' and it wasn't!

[neocon1984]

The Psychiatric community as a whole does not really see it that way. Asperger's is viewed as a form of mental illness such as schizophrenia, autism and bipolar and even grouped as mental retardation.

This person does not know squat about psychiatric diagnoses. Although it is listed in the DSM, the criteria for Asperger's is completely different than the criteria for MR.

[Gay State Conservative]

I don't know anything about the abuse of Aspberger's patients but I know a little about the disease itself.An old friend of mine has *two* kids in their 20's with the diagnosis.They're both smart as all hell but are *absolutely clueless* when it comes to every day life.One is on SSDI and the other one will surely be on it soon.My friend has another kid and he's completely normal and productive.

IMO,the human brain is *SO* complex and we know *SO* little about it that we should be careful not to attach political/social motives to everything that psychiatrists or neurologists do/say.

[Tired of Taxes]

You’re absolutely right. Children aren’t permitted to have different personalities anymore. All must conform. If they are unique in some way, they’re labeled with a disorder, and professions make money off it. Welcome to the Brave New World.