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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (5255)	5/14/2000 1:09:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 9127

My son is in special Ed- he has a neurological disorder (among other things)- and he is in with autistic children and ADD children- all boys. Remembering back to my elementary school days it seems to me that some of the boys who are now classed as ADD are what, in the 60's, we would have simply called REAL boys. Now I DO think tremendous strides have been made in autism and many other children's learning disorders - but you are right that it is imperfect, and the disease du jour always gets applied too broadly. Asberger's was the recent learning disability du jour. But to some extent districts and doctors have their hands tied by state REg's that require children to fit into certain categories in order to get special ed help.