I think we have too many labels in our culture. Yet, as a teacher, the labels autism and Aspergers gave me more understanding and heart towards some kids that are difficult to deal within a high school classroom of 30 . The other side of that is that if we lived in an ideal world, those classrooms wouldn't be made up of so many kids and a teacher would have more individual time to learn to deal with every quirk of each child. Quinn needed to understand what was wrong with "the boy" so he could begin to relate to him, Belle thought, "he's just who he is." The boy was probably better served in some ways by his mother's attitude but he did end up saying,"I have deficiencies" to Ona. He learned that description of himself someplace didn't he! So would he have been better served by a mother who got a diagnosis and became his advocate...it's hard to say.