Yesterday as I scrolled through Facebook, I came upon a link to an article about a recent study involving children with autism who recover. The article danced around word “recover.” When I “googled” the story later, the majority of the headlines about the study had titles such as “Can Some Children ‘Lose’ Autism Diagnosis?” as if autism was something they accidentally left in the developmental pediatrician’s waiting room. Some of the experts interviewed talked about kids “outgrowing” their diagnosis. No one used the term “recover.”
