When the incoming president is of the opinion that middle class children are being medicated for being "a bit bookish"? He's also dismissing the idea that a young person with mild Aspergers could possibly get into Oxbridge. He's clearly never ever met a maths student.
schoolsimprovement.net/doctors-under-pressure-to-label-bookish-children-as-mentally-ill/ Full article is behind a paywall, but there's a good chunk of it quoted on this blog
It would be wonderful if DS1 was just "a bit bookish". We'd have no problems persuading him to read, for a start. He would probably manage at the local school rather than the LA having to spend, each year, more than our house is worth, for a specialist placement. And he wouldn't need to cost the NHS £700 a year in medication that enables him to follow instructions and sit still for 10 minutes.