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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 742200" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Whenever I have had contact with mental health staff through voluntary or involuntary hospitalizations of my son or contact with the police, they ALWAYS favor my son's presentation over my own. I have been a medical professional for 30 years largely in prison. I know how to conduct myself. I am still discredited.</p><p></p><p>It does not take a rocket scientist to know that this is about money. If my son was advocating for extended treatment for himself, he would be discredited too. There are mothers on this forum from Canada who have autistic children (little ones). Apparently in the national health care system they will not give out this diagnosis, preferring to label the kids as ODD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and other ridiculous diagnoses. And these kids never receive the very effective interventions that they require. Why? Because the interventions would cost money. The system prefers to sacrifice the children, the parents and the families.</p><p></p><p>I was not down on myself that I was unsuccessful advocating for my son. Because I knew that the deck was stacked against me, before I started. What I felt was helpless and ineffective and frustrated and incredibly sad. Actually defeated. I admire your strength and your tenacity.</p><p></p><p>There is a concerted and coordinated strategy, I believe.</p><p></p><p>I have seen it at work in other areas, too. For example, voc rehab when they test their applicants seems to skew to assessing IQ's as below normal, or below. Why? because that precludes the applicants from requesting high level and costly education and training, to which they are entitled. My son's IQ has been tested at over 130. He was assessed as below normal by Voc Rehab. Below normal would be an IQ of about 90. This is not error, It is criminal. I have other examples too but I get too upset.</p><p></p><p>The key here is organizing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 742200, member: 18958"] Whenever I have had contact with mental health staff through voluntary or involuntary hospitalizations of my son or contact with the police, they ALWAYS favor my son's presentation over my own. I have been a medical professional for 30 years largely in prison. I know how to conduct myself. I am still discredited. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that this is about money. If my son was advocating for extended treatment for himself, he would be discredited too. There are mothers on this forum from Canada who have autistic children (little ones). Apparently in the national health care system they will not give out this diagnosis, preferring to label the kids as ODD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and other ridiculous diagnoses. And these kids never receive the very effective interventions that they require. Why? Because the interventions would cost money. The system prefers to sacrifice the children, the parents and the families. I was not down on myself that I was unsuccessful advocating for my son. Because I knew that the deck was stacked against me, before I started. What I felt was helpless and ineffective and frustrated and incredibly sad. Actually defeated. I admire your strength and your tenacity. There is a concerted and coordinated strategy, I believe. I have seen it at work in other areas, too. For example, voc rehab when they test their applicants seems to skew to assessing IQ's as below normal, or below. Why? because that precludes the applicants from requesting high level and costly education and training, to which they are entitled. My son's IQ has been tested at over 130. He was assessed as below normal by Voc Rehab. Below normal would be an IQ of about 90. This is not error, It is criminal. I have other examples too but I get too upset. The key here is organizing. [/QUOTE]
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