ASD from Miriam Stoppard's viewpoint!

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AIBU to be at this:

blogs.mirror.co.uk/dear-miriam/2009/10/why-were-too-ready-to-call-peo.html

When my ds showed signs of being a little different, it was Miriam's baby books that helped me stay on the long straight and narrow road of denial.

What do you think?

"Wonder what her favourite biscuit is?"

A half baked one.

They posted my comment too. Had no problem putting it on.

I haven't even read it because MS is 100% guaranteed to talk complete shit about most anything.

I am still amazed that this bog standard GP managed to turn herself into a pregnanncy/baby guru.

She is utterly odious.

Here is a link for lurking dads and grannies to read instead.
www.icdl.com/distance/webRadio/documents/2-26-2004.pdf

It's not a question of "ASD/not ASD". It's a question of "right let's get down to work".

Yikes! she is one of the directors of BIBIC!!!! What does this say -- I thought they were supposed to be brilliant!

Blimey I might send that article to them. There is even less excuse for her lack of knowledge.

I have written to the Shief Exec of BIBIC about her views

[email protected]

Perhaps she would like to come and attempt to dress my 7 year old son and walk him to school in the morning. Then she would realise why he needs a diagnosis.

I bought one of her baby books when pregnant with ds1 - scared the poo out of me. I passed it on to a friend buy felt really guilty afterward. Next pregnancy I bought a Gina F book but couldn't even bring myself to recycle that.

Well tbh she clearly doesn;t know much about autism as she uses 'the lower end of the spectrum' to mean HFA/AS which clearly most wouldn't.

I mean this for example is utter crap:
"Unlike people with other forms of autism, people with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome still crave involvement with others - they simply don't know how to go about it."
If she spent 5 minutes in this house she'd find my low functioning autistic son craves attention and will badger until he gets it - as will many - if she found out a bit more about autism she might discover that apparent attention craving or attention avoiding has more to do with sensory processing (sensory seeking vs sensory avoidant) than any level of functioning.

She is quite simply a fool. And has exposed herself as one.

Unfortunately most people are too ignorant to realise that column is a waste of text space.

she's a BIBIC director???? Seriously??? Hmmm yes a complaint needed.

I thought I saw (somewhere on their site) that she is BIBIC ambassador rather than director but I can't find the page.

I have complained to the CEO.

Someone suggested she should stick to writing about pregnancy and babies. Except she doesn't know much about those topics either!