Originally Posted by Marie Monday

True. That's the difficulty with diagnosing any mental disorder of course. And especially when medication gets involved and parents have a personal conflicting interest it should be handled very carefully, but from what I've experienced and heard the people who are in the position to make a first diagnosis are often incompetent. I think I once told you the story of how a psychologist told me that I can't have any form of autism 'because you looked me in the eye when you shook my hand, and you're able to go to college'