“No parent wants their child to be mislabeled. I refused to accept that and they learned the hard way that I was not that parent they could play with.” – Joy Elan.
Joy Elan is an Oakland based writer with a daughter who was misdiagnosed in her previous school as autistic. Elan describes why it was important for her to challenge that label while describing the years long effort to change take the label off her daughters school record.