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If you got here from the link on autistics.org, note that the editorial is in response to McKean's letter, not my response to it. I quote McKean's letter below - scroll down to the indented section.
For the record, I am diagnosed (age 4). I have no idea if the doctor was reputable in Thomas's eyes or not. The records have been lost and/or destroyed however, as the autism diagnosis was dismissed for many years in favor of others, such as mental retardation (age 5), giftedness (age 8), behavioral problems (ages 6-17), personality disorder (age 13), and others. So perhaps what I say is "self serving." So be it.
I'd also add that I have and will continue to speak out about ABA and the over-drugging of kids.
And that I'll fight for the right for the autistic adults to identify as autistic, even without the written diagnosis at the right age combined with the proper stereotypical childhood experiences and political views that Thomas seems to be demanding. But then again I don't see the hordes of faux autistics that Thomas and the curebies see.
Ironically I found Thomas McKean's book to express a lot of things about my experience that I've seen very few autistics write about (perhaps however both me and him are not autistic if the majority of autistics have different experiences! Yes, that's sarcasm)
I also fail to see the problem that Thomas sees with impostors in the community however.
I'm including the document attached by Thomas that was sent to me and many other people. It was a large enough list that I basically am considering it public information that needs to be examined in public.
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