Autism Is Not A Disease!

[mattsarmywife]

I am so upset right now.I took my oldest son to the doctor for his school physical today.And I filled out the paperwork that need to be filled out and put in that he is autistic.We get back to the room and the nurse does her part.Then the doctor walks in.Looks at his paperwork.And he says I see your son is autistic.I said yes he is.He looks at me and this is what he says so how is he recovering from this.I was like excuse me what.Autism is not cureable.Then he starts to look at my son and says with his disease he shouldn't be left alone etc etc.I said you know what I am done here.I look at my son and say let's go.Cause I am seriously about to lose it.And the doctor says he needs this for school.I said yeah he does but I will get another doctor to do it because I am not going to stand here and let you insult my son.Autism isn't a disease and you can't cure it.I think you need to go back to medical school and brush up on what Autism is cause you know jack crap about it.I am so pissed I can't see straight ,I am upset and have tears in my eyes.I know some will say maybe the doctor might not know about it.Which I think is obvious but with so much about Autism being out there you would think they would brush up on it or something.So I called the pedi office back and told them why I left in such a hurry and they rescheduled my  son's physical with another doctor that deals with autistic kids.Which I asked the woman that resheduled my appointment why wasn't my son scheduled with him in the first place because I told the woman that made the first appointment that I needed a doctor that dealt with or had experiance with autism.She said she didn't know that someone messed up.I said yeah big time.I am so upset I am shaking.My son is so upset cause now he thinks he has a disease.And I have to keep telling him he doesn't have one.

[Anyana]

Aug. 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM

wow.  I don't normally run into that kind of problem.  Normally, when we see a new doctor or dentist or something.  I tell them that my daughter is high functioning autistic and has sensory processing disorder.  They normally completely ignore the autism and ask what sensory processing disorder is.  Funny thing is, SPD is more prevelant that autism.

Sorry, you had such a bad experience.

Normally before I go somewhere new i talk to the nurses about her autism and SPD to make sure they know beforehand and that way I don't have to include my daughter in the conversation.  I have never told her she has any disorder at all.  As far as she is concerned she is no different from the other children and this keeps her confidence high.  That's the way that we like it.