My son was diagnosed with ASD in spring last year and it was explained to us that they need to be 100% sure as its hard to overturn a misdiagnosis which i respect and undertand but having had a discussion with a mum with a son with similar issues who is as yet undiagnosed, she seemed quite concerned by the whole impact of misdiagnosis where as I just dont see why its even an issue.
Can anyone explain what the impact of a misdiagnosis would be? Just to be clear i dont think my son has been misdiagnosed at all. As far as im concerned if he had been though I cant see that it would effect him unless he outwardly told people "i was mis diagnosed with ASD". I guess there might be a small amount of jobs that in the future might be concerened that this was on his medical history but how else would it negatively effect him?