# Diagnostic labels as group membership. A sequel **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagnostic-labels-as-group-membership-a-sequel/1023636 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [October 3, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagnostic-labels-as-group-membership-a-sequel/1023636 "2025-10-03T13:26:58Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 68
### Author: ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven) #### Post date: [October 14, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagnostic-labels-as-group-membership-a-sequel/1023636/68 "2025-10-14T22:16:59Z")
That’s true, but I’m not sure my relative even knows she’s different. She’s that low-functioning. Children actively avoiding a child is one thing (and something I was all too familiar with in my younger years) but ADULTS doing this, or even pulling their own kids away from someone is quite another. I started this thread quite a while back. > [@Autistic child has birthday party, nobody comes, police department saves the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autistic-child-has-birthday-party-nobody-comes-police-department-saves-the-day/768553): > > I swear, I hear at least one of these stories a week. I’m starting to think that some parents (OK, mothers) of kids with autism, or other special needs, are setting this up so they can get a free party and a gift grab for their kid, and some sympathetic TV coverage too. And it’s always the police who show up, and often pay for the parties out of their own pockets. The latest one from my area involved renting an entire paintball facility for the child, his family, and the police and their fami… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagnostic-labels-as-group-membership-a-sequel/1023636)._