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04/24/2017 18:28

Subject: Social pragmatic communication disorder

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally I have a child with social pragmatic disorder (can't get the name straight) and a close family member on the spectrum. Here are some differences that I notice (sample size obviously quite small, so it's personal experience):

1. ASD seems to have significantly more and severe sensory integration issues
2. Anxiety and rigid thinking is higher with ASD
3. This is a big one - social communication (DC) seems to be able to reflect on social situations in hindsight. He can see what went wrong, even if he needs a lot of practice changing behavior. ASD, not as able to be reflective because of metacognitive issues.

I can see that this might upset folks- it's not intended to generalize- it's just the unusual experience of one person being able to observe these two conditions side by side.

I have a DS, 9, with ASD/ Asperger's and ADHD and I don't find your points 1, 2 and 3 to be true at all. People who meet DS in real life don't think he has any diagnosis even when they have known him for several yrs unless I tell them and when I tell people they are always surprised (most people have a stereotypical view of ASD like you.)

DS does not have severe sensory issues and never has. No clinical level of anxiety according to his neuropsych eval. His rigid thinking is not particularly noticible and he has no problems reflecting on his actions at all.

Never heard another autism parent say this. Autism is severe by definition.

No, it's not. Just look at a kid who is in a MAP vs. a kid who is non-verbal. There is a big range of severity.

It's all still severe. There are three levels of severity. Not one says they go for years without anyone suspecting they are autistic.

Oh, please, there are plenty of NT people of whom spouses, family, co-workers, or acquaintances suspect that they are on the spectrum.

Yes. Lots of armchair quarterbacking in the autism diagnosis game. But the earlier PP said no one even suspected her child was autistic, even after years of knowing him. This doesn't fit with autism.

Yeah, according to her. Who cares what delusion she's operating under.

That's not fair. I don't think there's a consensus among specialists about what type of child fits under the autism diagnosis. Have you read that article in a scientific publication a few years ago about how autism presents differently in girls than boys and sometimes no one suspects the girls have autism? I don't necessarily agree with the article's viewpoint because by the DSM definition it's supposed to impact every day life and if it doesn't how could they be on the spectrum but it gives you a sense of the disagreement about what the condition really means.

There is a whole book category about people who were not diagnosed with autism, Asperger's, until they were adults. Do a search on Amazon. Being diagnosed with Asperger's until adulthood isn't that uncommon and fortunately, there is more awareness now so that kids without speech delays but who are autistic get identified in childhood and get the help and therapies that they need.