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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 718554" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Psychiatric hospitals are not the best for assessing autism. Autism is NOT a psychiatric disorder. It is a neurololical difference that causes some unusual/difficult/frustrating behaviors. Our son's psychiatrist(s) did not understand higher functioning autism so he kept getting diagnosed wrong. There are specifics for autism spectrum although autistics can present differently. They almost all have sensory problems, diffiulty in some communacative way and anxiety is there. Other things too I am sure.</p><p></p><p>A commpn misdiagnosis from a psychiatrist is bipolar. Be very vigilent. Know your stuff. Read. Never assume a doctor of psychiatry is always right. This is a very inexact science so far. As our neuro psychologist told us,"every diagnosis is just the diagnostician's best guess. Mistakes are made all the time, even here at Mayo."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 718554, member: 1550"] Psychiatric hospitals are not the best for assessing autism. Autism is NOT a psychiatric disorder. It is a neurololical difference that causes some unusual/difficult/frustrating behaviors. Our son's psychiatrist(s) did not understand higher functioning autism so he kept getting diagnosed wrong. There are specifics for autism spectrum although autistics can present differently. They almost all have sensory problems, diffiulty in some communacative way and anxiety is there. Other things too I am sure. A commpn misdiagnosis from a psychiatrist is bipolar. Be very vigilent. Know your stuff. Read. Never assume a doctor of psychiatry is always right. This is a very inexact science so far. As our neuro psychologist told us,"every diagnosis is just the diagnostician's best guess. Mistakes are made all the time, even here at Mayo." [/QUOTE]
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