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Is there support group on line for parents of a child with DMDD

I’ll cut right to the chase. It’s truly horrifying that a medical professional would be granted CE credit by sitting through this or might model their interactions with autistic people (children or adults) based on your advice. This video contains every ableist cliche in the book and was clearly not formulated with meaningful input from a diverse group of autistic adults. I’ll address all the cliches I can remember below. 1) Your insistence on person-first language is extremely paternalistic and disrespectful. While not all autistic people prefer identity-first language, the vast majority of us do. Autism is not a sickness that can or should be separated from us. It is merely a neurotype. Autistic person is appropriate. Disabled person is appropriate. 2) The puzzle piece is a hate symbol that suggests we have a missing piece and aren’t fully complete human beings. The vast majority of autistic adults reject the puzzle piece as a symbol for autism or the autistic community. 3) Functioning language is inherently ableist. When you call someone “high-functioning” or “low-functioning,” that suggests there’s a “fully functioning” standard none of us are living up to. Functioning labels also fail to recognize the “spiky profile” of autism and judge someone based on how close they come to passing as neurotypical to the casual observer, a meaningless, arbitrary metric. 4) Never describe an autistic person or our neurotype as “mysterious.” We are usually misunderstood and thought of as mysterious or puzzling by those who make no effort to learn about or from us. 5) The DSM-IV and its labels are dead and gone. They were dead and gone when you uploaded this video and they still are. The vast majority of autistic adults have moved on from ableist, functioning labels, like “Asperger’s.” Unfortunately, a minority of the autistic community cling to these labels, as do many non-autistic people who feel separating those who would have formerly been diagnosed with “Asperger’s” from the rest of the autistic community is the best way to divide and subjugate said community. Do yourselves and your clients a favor. Forget everything you think you know or have ever been taught about autistic people. Engage with autistic self-advocates. Make an effort to learn from those with the lived experience of being autistic. Don’t assume you know what’s best for an autistic or other disabled person, regardless of any degrees hanging on your wall. If you truly see us as people, put in the work and prove it. Oh, and please take this ableist video down.

Not enough info out there. Thank you so much for this

Thank you for this very informative webinar on DMDD it's so helpful

I know this was years ago but for those just tuning in…. False. Autistic is fine to say. It’s mainly neurotypicals who have a problem with autistic. It’s perfectly acceptable to say and preferred by most autistic people.

I want and I have to say and tell you that when it comes to having a certain kind of a specific personal special interest, now about that I have to disagree with you because that's not any kind of mental disorder nor is anything to do with it, we all have a favorite interest and have a right to have that too, its just the behavior behind and about what it is its what makes it a bit abnormal, it just all depends.

Thank you so much for this very informative webinar on DMDD.

Great place and very thorough. Helpful info to know through much study. Why isn't this able to get more likes? I've been here (CRG) and it's a great place. I tried to like the vid but it wouldn't work. Weird.

Wonderful place. Very comprehensive and helpful.

Thank you for this. It is so helpful.

Oh Julie, Russell Barkley is a drug company propagandist. He's taken over six figures of payments from Eli Lilly (that we know of) and has financial conflicts of interest with the major "ADHD" drug makers. He's not trustworthy on anything.

Amazing how long someone can talk about a checklist of symptoms as if it's a real disorder, and not an invented, pseudomedical pretext for drugging children. ----- edit: some of my previous comments here are being hidden. If you can't see my reply to Sarah Sanders below, it's been censored.

I want to watch, sounds too choppy

use writing system stop no more speaking yes!