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Anonymous wrote:My son was misdiagnosed at three years old as having mild autism. He hated the feel of new clothes, he wasn’t good at socializing. At 18 months he loved doing math games made for kindergarten but his speech was delayed. So they immediately went to autism.
He was finally diagnosed correctly with a nonverbal learning disability after extensive testing by the school. On testing his verbal IQ was 130 and his nonverbal IQ was 110. That’s a significant learning disability. He knew everything. When they do the one on one testing the tester keeps testing until the student doesn’t know the answers. In 3rd grade he was able to go to middle school levels in all subjects. It’s easier to do when in a one on one calm environment. He couldn’t produce written results on his own.
He got great help at school and we found activities that he liked to do. He had the same best friend all through school. He had girlfriends.
We made it work the best we could. You’ll be able to do the same.
It sounds like he was correctly diagnosed with autism. Many autistic children have NVLD. Your son was likely mildly autistic which is far different than being severely autistic. People with autism can have friends and romantic partners. They just also struggle with things like sensory stuff, speech, and social mores. Sounds like your son hit all of those criteria. Call it what you want at the outer edges of the diagnosis but our understanding of the spectrum has evolved perhaps to a point where it’s meaningless but - again, it’s identifying a cluster of symptoms, so, it’s still useful.
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