From Huffingtonn Post's Todd Drezner.
Given how many autistic people there are in the world, it's odd how
much of the conversation about autism revolves around children who don't
exist. The most common such child is the one who is "indistinguishable
from his peers." This is the child who will supposedly emerge after
successful therapies or treatments for autism leave the child
essentially "normal."
This hypothetical normal child is closely related to another, younger
one--the 1- or 2-year-old who was typically developing before the signs
of autism became apparent. These two types of hypothetical children
are linked by the assumption that their autism obscures their "real"
selves. The hope for parents is that if the autism can somehow be removed, the real child will re-emerge.
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